Fedora web site. The "I'm feeling lucky" test.

[Jeremy Hogan]

Not to mix quality of th esite with Google results, but you can improve the
"I'm feeling lucky" results by improving your Google page rank. That goes up
the more people click your site when they type in keywords that match your
meta or site contents mixed in with the number of folks that link to you.
Plus a dash of pepper, and what I think is nutmeg.

For what it's worth, "fedora", "fedora core" and "fedora linux" take me to
fedora.redhat.com (fedora.info is second to fedora.redhat.com in pagerank)
"fedora extras" takes me to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras.

--jeremy

On 6/7/06, Irving Bennett <irving at alairelibre.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 05:17, Naoki <naoki at valuecommerce.com> wrote:
> >> Don't flame me, just making an observation and voicing an opinion ( and
> >> we all know about those ).
> >>
> >> I typed the following terms into google and hit "I'm feeling Lucky" and
> >> this is what I felt about the results..
> >>
> > ...
> >> "fedora" - Without doubt the most disappointing, and least exciting
> >> result of the bunch.
> >>
> >> Of the fedora sites I tend to lean towards fedoraproject.org being the
> >> nicest, fedora.info coming in second, while fedora.us is down for me so
> >> I can't tell.
> >>
> >> I tend to think the same as Bill Hicks when it comes to marketing but
> it
> >> would be nice if Fedora was better represented.
> >>
> >> Is anybody working on perhaps improving the situation or would this be
> >> deemed low priority / unimportant ?
> >>
> >
> > There's not too terribly much more we can do about this.  Google's
> results
> > are
> > largely determined by their PageRank formulas a few other automated
> > factors,
> > and the standing of results can change at any time.  fedora.redhat.comwas
> > long the official Fedora website, and the migration to fedoraproject.org
> > has
> > been slow in many regards.  As more people and websites begin pointing
> to
> > fedoraproject.org instead, that domain will rise in the results.  Having
> > the
> > external references split between the two domains has a negative impact
> on
> > the standings of each.  If you want to help, the best thing you can do
> is
> > tell people to direct their links to the fedoraproject.org domain.
> >
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> I believe Naoki was referring to the quality of the Fedora sites. The
> Fedora sites do not have nearly as much information and documentation as
> the other sites. We know that much of the excellent Redhat documentation
> applies to Fedora as well, but within the Fedora sites there is almost no
> documentation. For example, there is no "Fedora User Guide" in the Fedora
> sites. Also, if you take a look at Recent Changes in the Fedora Project
> site, most of the activity has to do with this group. There is very little
> activity in the "real information" area.
>
> As a long time Fedora user, I have often turned to other places to find
> information on how to run my Fedora Linux systems. Most often I turn to
> Redhat, or tldp.org. Very seldom do I find answers in fedora.redhat.com,
> or fedoraproject.com... The answer, of course, is that some of us have to
> pick up that ball, and run with it!
>
> Saludos,
>
> Irving Bennett
> Panama
>
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