[General] OSAF redirect

[Philippe Bossut]

+1 on Mikeal's view. This is very much my feeling too.

Also note that if we want to make sure we do get ranked at the top, OSAF 
should qualify for a Google Grant (http://www.googlegrants.info/) and 
get free $$ to set up an add using AdWords. Apparently, Mozilla is 
taking advantage of this for FireFox (type FireFox in Google and see the 
"sponsored link" at the top).

- Philippe

Mikeal Rogers wrote:
> It's already pretty easy and obvious how to get from osafoundation.org 
> to chandlerproject.org, so it's not the biggest problem in the world 
> that people are linking to it. We're already on top of posting 
> comments on these blogs anyway so we can link to chandlerproject.org 
> in the comments directly.
>
> I think if we think we could make it easier to navigate from 
> osafoundation.org to chandlerproject.org we should, but we shouldn't 
> just forward osafoundation.org to chandlerproject.org -- I can see 
> value in keeping them separate.
>
> I think the mozilla.org site is a good one to go off of;
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/
>
> -Mikeal
>
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:
>
>> We've had about two blog post point to www.osafoundation.org instead 
>> of our desired chandlerproject.org.
>>
>> It was suggested we look at ways to minimize this.
>>
>> The most straightforward solution proposed was to have 
>> www.osafoundation.org redirect to chandlerproject.org.  I said I 
>> wanted to think about how that affected our Google Page Rank first.
>>
>> If you google for "Chandler", you get www.osafoundation.org at the 
>> top.  You used to get chandler arizona, so we've gone up in the last 
>> year. This is due to the network of links built up over time which 
>> give www.osafoundation.org a high ranking.
>>
>> chandlerproject.org is sixth on the list currently since effectively, 
>> it only has gotten linked at all in the last five weeks.
>>
>> So what will redirecting www.osafoundation.org do to page rank?  As I 
>> understand it, you will take on the page ranking of the site you 
>> redirect to.  That is, www.osafoundation.org would get the lower 
>> ranking of chandlerproject.org's current page rank, *not* the other 
>> way around where www.osafoundation.org would raise the rank of the 
>> currently sixth chandlerproject.org.
>>
>> www.osafoundation.org has a page rank of 7, chandlerproject.org has a 
>> page rank of 0.  ( http://www.pagerankr.com/ )
>>
>> I'm pretty conflicted now over what I think we should do with this 
>> information.  Outright redirection of www.osafoundation.org is still 
>> on the table.  But I don't really want to lose our first-place 
>> ranking now.  We might say that if chandlerproject.org is ever going 
>> to be first place for "chandler" over chandler, az, it's going to 
>> have to build the link structure itself over time and we'll get back 
>> to number 1 eventually, so let's start now.
>>
>> I can't find matching chandlerproject.org stats, but for some 
>> non-Google link tracking on www.osafoundation.org, see:
>>
>> http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osafoundation.org%2F 
>>
>>
>> Ted has said he doesn't think we should sit on this issue and should 
>> do something to avoid bloggers pointing to www.osafoundation.org.
>>
>> I throw the conversation open to the floor, in the context of the 
>> alleged pagerank behavior I describe above.  What should we do about 
>> blogs linking to www.osafoundation.org directly?
>>
>> -- Jared
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