[Discuss] BLU's SEO (Will Rico)

[jguarino at evolutionaryit.com (Joseph Guarino)]

Hello Will,

Great to see you posting here.  =) You have been doing great work over
at the desktop SIG and it is awesome to see people enthusiastically
embracing the Linux desktop.  Your SEO/SEM knowlege is vast so I'm happy
to see you add some insights to this discussion. 


> That being said, the two most important things are:
> 1.  Defining goals as Eric, Tom, Joseph and others have mentioned.
> 2.  Doing what's best for the user, which could be an ethical decision. 

Agreed!  We should narrow this down.

> Both the in person activities and the increased posting of content will
> improve SEO as a side effect and that will be a good thing for everyone in
> terms of increased awareness and high quality information for the public at
> large.

Most definitely this is a powerful step forward but it really requires
moving toward a CMS like Wordpress or Drupal so anyone in the group who
wants to post important, relevant content can do so.  

I would love to see if there are ways we can collaborate better and I'll
look forward to sitting down with you.    

Thanks for weighing in and I hope to see you over at the desktop SIG!
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> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:12:31 -0400
> From: Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO
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> Looks like I'm late to the party on this thread, but as the organizer for
> the desktop SIG and someone who does SEO professionally, I should probably
> chime in.
> 
> There is nothing intrinsically ethical or non-ethical about SEO.  Google
> isn't the arbiter of ethics and deciding whether or not to comply with
> Google's Webmaster guidelines isn't really an ethical decision.
> 
> That being said, the two most important things are:
> 1.  Defining goals as Eric, Tom, Joseph and others have mentioned.
> 2.  Doing what's best for the user, which could be an ethical decision.
> 
> If we do what's best for the user and don't shoot ourselves in the foot
> with regards to index-ability, SEO pretty much takes care of itself for
> almost any goal I can think our organization might have.
> 
> If the goal is to bring in new users, we have 310 members of the desktop
> SIG, which is a subsidiary-community for desktop users as well newer users
> of GNU/Linux, and those interested in free software advocacy.
> http://www.meetup.com/desktop-linux-users-group
> 
> Meetup.com has been a fantastic way to find new people.  I cross-post
> mainline BLU meetings when they fall into one of the categories listed
> above, and I always list all BLU meetings in our "More Events and
> Announcements" section.
> 
> If the goal is to bring in more users, the lowest hanging fruit is to
> integrate our SIG (meetup) community more with the main BLU community via
> this mailing list as well as encouraging more cross-attendance of events.
> 
> I want to do a better job of getting people who join via Meetup.com, to
> subscribe to this list and become integrated into the broader community.
> Meetup.com is a proprietary system and I think it's fine to meet people
> there, but it would be good for the users to bring them into an open/free
> system, which this list better represents.
> 
> For in-person meetings, I'd love to do more Installfests and/or project
> nights.  One limitation I have is that I consider myself an intermediate
> user and I'm not confident I can address the myriad of issues that come up
> during Installfests and project nights.  I'd organize more of these if
> there is interest in participation from some of the more experienced users
> on this list in attending and assisting.
> 
> I think that would be good for users and achieve the goal of growing our
> community.
> 
> It would also be great for users if we post more videos, photos, slides,
> notes, etc. from meetings.  John Abreau does a better job of this with
> mainline BLU meetings than I do.
> 
> Both the in person activities and the increased posting of content will
> improve SEO as a side effect and that will be a good thing for everyone in
> terms of increased awareness and high quality information for the public at
> large.
> 
> Please note, any assistance and collaboration from interested parties will
> be appreciated and may even result in free as in beer.
> 
> Will
>