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2021-09-10
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eskos14:09:01

A user on IRC noticed that Clojars SEO for Bing and DuckDuckGo (at least) is kinda bad. I wonder what's up with that or how to fix that; none of the first page links point to actual http://Clojars.org

tcrawley14:09:32

Interesting. I have no idea how any of that works, but if someone wants to figure it out, I'll help where I can

eskos15:09:59

Yeah I have no idea either 🙂 There be dragons from my point of view at least.

seancorfield16:09:11

@U8SFC8HLP Is that when you type in just clojars (because you can't remember whether it is .com or .org maybe)?

seancorfield16:09:51

On Bing, the GH repo for Clojars is in the top few results and that does at least have a link to the actual http://clojars.org site. But a lot of search engine "rank" comes from authoritative inbound linking so updating http://clojure.org so every mention of Clojars was a link to http://clojars.org would help.

seancorfield16:09:55

However, search engines also down-rank sites that a) don't change much and b) don't have "interesting" text on them. Moving the tutorial from a GH wiki into pages on http://clojars.org itself would probably help (and then replacing each wiki page with a stub linking to the appropriate page on http://clojars.org, so folks' links are not broken).