[General] OSAF redirect

[Ted Leung]

On Oct 19, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> Why is the assumption that all of these people are looking for  
> chandlerproject? If they are, why aren't they clicking on one of  
> the three links? If they can't obviously see how to get to Chandler  
> then we can fix that without forwarding.

Because the volume is high enough to make it unlikely that that are  
looking for the non-profit

>
> Do we have some data showing that these people aren't going to  
> osafoundation.org to check out OSAF?

Traffic seems to correspond to blog post traffic spikes

>
> Are we certain that this number won't decrease significantly once  
> we lose the current osafoundation.org page rank? Maybe the reason  
> we have so many more osafoundation.org hits is because the page  
> rank is high, forwarding it won't help us if that is the case.
>
> It's much riskier in my opinion to do the forward. We can redesign  
> the page to make it more obvious how to get to Chandler and cut  
> down the risk significantly.
>
> Also, do we have any idea why these bloggers are linking to  
> osafoundation.org instead of chandlerproject.org? Are we not  
> pushing this link in the product and in the marketing enough?

Google "chandler".  What link comes up at the top?  If you didn't  
know we changed the project url, would you look any further?

Ted