Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-22 Thread Gabor Szabo
I updated the original post http://szabgab.com/claiming-your-cpan-authorship-at-google.html with some screenshots on how to add the Google+ profile to the MetaCPAN account. Just in case the earlier explanation was confusing. Gabor

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com writes: I am sure you saw that some search results on Google have little avatars next to them showing the face of the author. It is done by a little configuration both on the web site of the search result and on Google+. Yet another attempt to seduce people into

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-22 Thread Karen Etheridge
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:13:27AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Well, I found the results of the Search distribution form not very good (I think because it only searches in the documentation?) but maybe that's because I'm used to s.c.o's grep utility (which lacks some useful linking

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-22 Thread André Walker
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:16:23AM -0800, Karen Etheridge wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:13:27AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Well, I found the results of the Search distribution form not very good (I think because it only searches in the documentation?) but maybe that's because I'm

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:29:37PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: I tried to collect my thoughts and your comments on getting more people to use MetaCPAN instead of search.cpan.org. It is not going to be easy and thus it got a bit long: http://szabgab.com/moving-from-sco-to-metacpan.html I'd

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread Karen Etheridge
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:33:26PM -0900, Arthur Corliss wrote: I'm in the same boat. I have yet to hear of any reason compelling enough to make me break old habits... s.c.o can display broken or outdated data. I've seen cases where its idea of an indexed dist is quite different than PAUSE.

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
On 18/11/2013 09:25, Gabor Szabo wrote: In this article I explain how you can get your avatar to Google search results involving your CPAN contribution: http://szabgab.com/claiming-your-cpan-authorship-at-google.html Done. Maybe. No idea whether I've done it *correctly* or not though, as I

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, David Cantrell wrote: Both! I mostly prefer search.cpan.org because I'm used to it :-) which, I admit, isn't a very good reason. I'm in the same boat. I have yet to hear of any reason compelling enough to make me break old habits... --Arthur Corliss

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
On 21/11/2013 14:35, Gabor Szabo wrote: On 2013-11-21, at 9:06 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:29:37PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: The most important issue to address is why should we prefer metacpan to search.cpan. You don't cover this at all. [reasons] David, from your

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 02:24:52PM -0800, Karen Etheridge wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:33:26PM -0900, Arthur Corliss wrote: I'm in the same boat. I have yet to hear of any reason compelling enough to make me break old habits... s.c.o can display broken or outdated data. I've seen

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2013-11-21, at 9:06 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:29:37PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: The most important issue to address is why should we prefer metacpan to search.cpan. You don't cover this at all. I did not cover that as I was not trying to convince anyone that

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread Olaf Alders
On 2013-11-21, at 9:06 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:29:37PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: I tried to collect my thoughts and your comments on getting more people to use MetaCPAN instead of search.cpan.org. It is not going to be easy and thus it got a bit long:

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-20 Thread Gabor Szabo
I tried to collect my thoughts and your comments on getting more people to use MetaCPAN instead of search.cpan.org. It is not going to be easy and thus it got a bit long: http://szabgab.com/moving-from-sco-to-metacpan.html I'd be glad to read your opinion on this! regards Gabor

Re: MetaCpan SEO (Was: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules)

2013-11-20 Thread Smylers
Gabor Szabo writes: I tried to collect my thoughts and your comments on getting more people to use MetaCPAN instead of search.cpan.org. It is not going to be easy and thus it got a bit long: http://szabgab.com/moving-from-sco-to-metacpan.html Thanks for writing that. I'd be glad to read

How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-18 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, I am sure you saw that some search results on Google have little avatars next to them showing the face of the author. It is done by a little configuration both on the web site of the search result and on Google+. In this article I explain how you can get your avatar to Google search results

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-18 Thread Smylers
Gabor Szabo writes: In this article I explain how you can get your avatar to Google search results involving your CPAN contribution: http://szabgab.com/claiming-your-cpan-authorship-at-google.html I hope many CPAN authors will implement this (if you already have a G+ account it takes

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-18 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Gabor Szabo writes: In this article I explain how you can get your avatar to Google search results involving your CPAN contribution: http://szabgab.com/claiming-your-cpan-authorship-at-google.html I hope many CPAN authors

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-18 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Gabor Szabo writes: In this article I explain how you can get your avatar to Google search results involving your CPAN contribution:

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-18 Thread Olaf Alders
On 2013-11-18, at 7:27 AM, Todd Rinaldo wrote: I commented in the article, but I’ll bring it up here too: I want to know how we can get google to start showing metacpan results instead of search.cpan.org results. Right now if I search for Module::Build, my first page hit is:

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-18 Thread Karen Etheridge
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:51:18PM -0500, Olaf Alders wrote: I don't have a real answer here, but one problem may be the huge amount of inbound links search.cpan.org has vs metacpan.org Having been around so much longer, it's natural that search.cpan.org is the clear winner in this