On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > +1. IMHO - JFDI but thanks for letting others say different. >
A reasonable alternative would be if someone wanted to propose a fair process for reviewing and maintaining a consultants list. But right now we're hurting potential consultants more than helping them. If you search Google for 'openoffice consultant' you get several links to obsolete website pages before you get a genuine consultant. So we're pushing the real consultants off the 1st page of search results by having the outdated content on our website. Ditto for CD distributors. Try searching for "buy openoffice cd". Our outdated content is competing against our own ecosystem. And because of our PageRank the outdated content is "winning". -Rob > On Jul 16, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> We have this legacy page: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html >> >> Users get to it via three main paths: >> >> 1) Google search for "openoffice consultants" >> >> 2) The OpenOffice.org Consultants Directory link from our main support >> page; http://www.openoffice.org/support/ >> >> 3) From the legacy BizDev project page: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/ >> >> Problem: The consultants list has not been maintained. The Spanish >> and German links are dead. Information on getting entries added >> changed points to old openoffice.org email addresses that no longer >> exist. >> >> IMHO, an out of date list is doing more harm than good. >> >> My Proposal: Delete the consultants lists and point visitors of the >> BizDev home page to the ooo-marketing list. If someone is really an >> OpenOffice consultant they should be easily findable by searching >> Google, LinkedIn, etc. This is not something that we need to >> maintain. >> >> -Rob >
