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Low ranking of OASIS specs in Google search results

From: Douglas Morrison <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:04:00 -0000

Hi Michael, Using the exact same search terms - but google.co.uk (!) So the alternative is obviously for you all to use . co.uk :) Kind regards, Doug Morrison Information Architect http://dita4all.com http://mardinet.org Chair OASIS DITA Adoption Focus Area SC On 14/01/2011 14:43, Michael Priestley wrote: OF0F7EA008.4A41B0CA-ON85257818.00507735-85257818.0050DABB@ca.ibm.com type= cite > Hi Doug, Did you get the different result (rank number 2) using the same search terms? I only ask because when I searched dita 1.2 , I got the exact same results as Kris. In terms of adding links, I'd suggest: - make sure there is a page dedicated to linking to it as a resource from dita.xml.org - that site has the highest google rank generally for DITA, and it's giving us the first 2 pages in the results - add links to it from the feature review articles at dita.xml.org (such as the keyref articles) - so the current higher-ranked pages link to the preferred destination - add links to it from our TC wiki pages that mention 1.2 - same reason as above Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Lead IBM DITA Architect [email protected] http://dita.xml.org/blog/25 From: Doug Morrison <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 01/14/2011 09:24 AM Subject: Re: [dita] Low ranking of OASIS specs in Google search results Hi Kris, It was ranked number 2 when I Googled it a few moments ago. A few suggestions: 1. Add various pieces of metadata that includes DITA 1.2 2. We could all add links to it on our sites/blogs 3. Tweet about it a bit 4. Click on it on Google listings Kind regards, Doug Morrison Information Architect http://dita4all.com http://mardinet.org Chair OASIS DITA Adoption Focus Area SC On 14/01/2011 13:04, Kristen Eberlein wrote: Hi, Robin. One of our DITA TC members (Su-Laine Yeo of JustSystems Canada) brought to our attention the fact that the official DITA page is low on the page when one googles “DITA 1.2” – it comes after pages on dita.xml.org and an internal DITA TC Wiki page used during the design of DITA 1.2: I had an action item from the last TC meeting to bring this to your attention. I’m cc’ing Don Day and the TC list in case anyone has specific suggestions for what OASIS could do to move the official pages up in prominence. Best regards, Kris Kristen James Eberlein l DITA Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1 (919) 682-2290 l [email protected] Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail