Re: [Magazine] Ideas for new short articles

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 09:42:05AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> I discussed keyword focused articles recently with Rikki Endsley, an
> editor for opensource.com.  She told me one way to boost visibility,
> searchability, and site visits is to target articles directly at the
> things people are searching for e.g. on Google.
> 
> The http://keywordtool.io site discovers popular searches based on
> keywords.  I entered "Fedora how to" and here is the list it retrieved
> for me:
> 
> https://paste.fedoraproject.org/392172/84893614
> 
> While some of the searches are not necessarily good ones for a short,
> targeted article, many are.  I would propose that we use this list to
> seed article pitches and assign them to new writers, rather than doing
> just arbitrary technical articles which may not perform as well over
> the long term.
> 
> By the way, Rikki mentioned that titling the article just like a
> search can help boost its visibility as well, e.g. "How to start sshd
> on Fedora."

Sorry to reply to myself, but since no one else commented... :-)
Something I was considering today was whether these topics all make
sense to include in the RSS feed.  Let's say I write a "shorty"
article from this list, like how to enable the SSH server.  Do we want
that to automatically end up in the feed at the top?  Does it matter?
I have a feeling that it probably doesn't, but if an editor or other
knowledgeable person had some information to help guide, it would be
helpful.

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