On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 01/08/2013 09:37 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > >> On 07/01/2013 Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>> >>> Am 01/07/2013 09:54 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>>> >>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/ >>>> So I'd recommend either keeping the page and updating it. Or >>>> replacing it with a page that says that the Mac port is now full >>>> integrated with our releases and then link to the download page. Or >>>> put in a 401 redirect from that URL to the download page. ... >>> >>> OK, then I prefer to use a redirect to the download area. >> >> >> Sounds good. Actually, we can redirect everything under >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/ >> >> to the homepage, since links on the old page include support, >> screenshots, downloads... all resources directly available from the >> project homepage. > > > Then I would like to volunteer to try this on Sunday. >
Hi Marcus, I took a closer look at the data and I have some concerns from an SEO perspective. We get a large number of visits from users who query Google for terms like: openoffice for mac open office mac openoffice mac free office for mac download openoffice for mac Try these queries in your browser. See the porting page is the number one hit. For me the 2nd hit is CNet and then we start hitting malware sites. We don't get another openoffice.org web page until position #10 in the search results. If we redirect to the home page, which does not mention "Mac" anywhere, then the next time Google updates its index it will see that as the contents of /porting/mac and judge it to be far less relevant to queries like "openoffice for mac". So we then lose our #1 search position. And users suffer, because they now get diverted to spammy sites. In other words, although you might think you are driving users to the download page, in reality we'll just drop in search placement and users will be sent to other websites, not to openoffice.org at all. (I should mention that we had 93,559 visits to /porting/mac/index.html in the past month, and 79,978 of them were the result of a Google query. So almost all visitors to /porting/mac are getting there via Google seaches.) So I think we should consider this carefully. Is there anything actually wrong with the /porting/mac page as it is? It gets nearly 100K visits/month and appears to drive a good number of downloads. So it has content that helps connect users to our website by being relevant to popular Google queries. It is considered the most authoritative page on the entire internet on the topic of "openoffice for mac". No other page is as good, not even our home page. We should try to preserve some of this authority. Here's an alternative idea. If the issue is that this is no longer a "porting" project, then maybe we could do something like this: 1) Create a new landing page for users interested in OpenOffice for Mac. Maybe it is at http://www.openoffice.org/mac. Maybe it is based on whatever is relevant still from /porting/mac. It doesn't need tons of content, but enough to be relevant. 2) Redirect /porting/mac/* to /mac/index.html 3) Delete the old /porting/mac Regards, -Rob > Marcus >
