On Saturday 25 October 2008, 06:37:03, SteveC did write: > CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Engine Optimisation > and we'd like to offer their time to look at making OSM push higher up > search results. Basically we think it would be nice that if you search > for 'free maps' and things like that then OSM comes up to the top. > > What do you think?
If you think people searching on phrases like that mean Free as in speech, then yes, but I suspect they want free as in beer. These people would probably be more satisfied with free beer map services for the moment. I guess I'm just saying I wouldn't aim for "free maps". It probably won't harm either. > > If positive I'd suggest that we build a list of terms we want to push > the ranking up for, throw these at someone with SEO knowledge, review > the changes they suggest and then see who would like to implement > them. I imagine it will be a few things like making the <meta> tags > better, maybe streamlining the text on OSM and such. > I've mentioned this, but not on the list: start by canonicalising the main site hostname. Have www.openstreetmap.org redirect to, not mirror, openstreetmap.org. I'm told there are several more mirrored domains. Then your incoming links will be unambiguously (for a search engine) pointing to the same pages. There are also usability and other benefits. I'll expand if you like, but it sounds like you already have access to expertise. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
