So all of this comes down to page rank for our site vs that "other"
site.
I've got to believe we have better incoming links to our site, so if
we better structured our site to do cross linking between categories
(and perhaps stoop to the subdomain tricks he does), we could
presumably improve this situation immensely.
James
On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Mark Hattam wrote:
On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:54, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Ultimately, I don't think anyone is going to be able to "force" the darwinports.com
folks from doing what they're doing (and I really wish the
original poster had managed to keep the notion of opendarwin /
darwinports separate in his head, since they're really not related
issues, yet there's opendarwin in the subject on this whole
thread). Those who were around back when macports was chosen as
the new name will know that this was, in fact, one of the big
reasons for doing so. This "problem" has been around for as long
as MacPorts has been renamed.
The real problem at this point, however, is not darwinports.com and
all this chest-thumping and hand wringing is giving me nothing but
feelings of deja-vu since we have done it all before. It didn't
help then and it's utterly unlikely to accomplish anything now.
The real problem here is one of branding. Why/where are users even
hearing the name "darwinports" when it's been essentially dead for
over 3 years? Projects rename themselves all the time and somehow
manage to make the name change stick. What this project needs to
ask itself is why the name change has not stuck as successfully
here and then fix that problem rather than re-fighting old battles.
- Jordan
Go to Google ... enter something like ... mysql5 port macosx
1. mysql.com
2. out of date way to get php5, mysql5, apache2 using MacPorts ...
what's gawk & nawk ???
3. the "unwanted" site
...
8. again the "unwanted" site, with a sublist of lots more results
...
further down some hits for the trac to with bugs
...
nowhere in the first 100 hits is www.macports.org
So it's little wonder that the "other" site keeps cropping up.
Google does have a good number of pages ... search for ...
site:www.macports.org
In fact there are 328 hits for
site:www.macports.org mysql5
but having found which of those is a relevant one ... most of them
have the generic "The Macports Project - Available Ports" page title.
Mark
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