[General] OSAF redirect

Mikeal Rogers mikeal at osafoundation.org
Fri Oct 19 12:55:47 PDT 2007


>> 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?

We can change the page title to something like "OSAF -- Home of  
Chandler Project". And make half of the osafoundation.org page a  
large image link to chandlerproject -- something nice looking like  
the one on mozilla.org.

If people don't click on the link then I really doubt they would have  
clicked on the link to visit hub or downloaded Chandler Desktop so we  
didn't actually lose any users and we keep our page rank.

All of these people who aren't going from osafoundation.org to  
chandlerproject.org, are they deciding they don't want to check out  
the product for some reason? Did they click on the link in the blog  
just to check out organzation/product but not download it ( I do this  
all the time by the way )? The redirect doesn't help us get them as  
users and does drop our page rank.

-Mikeal


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