On 07/20/2016 04:58 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
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.
Hmm, maybe I misunderstand the question, but I don't see a reason to not include them in the feed. I guess the concern is over whether a subscriber would be interested in the "shorter" tip articles. But for something like RSS, I imagine it's best to be consistent and make the same noise as usual for posts.
The RSS feed is also syndicated for start.fedoraproject.org too, so I think the potential of a newbie Fedora user catching the article there too is pretty great, so we might even get increased traffic from there for some of these articles. Not that I have anything to actually back that statement, but it's a guess, maybe. :)
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