March 13, 2020 at 4:33 PM

On 2020-03-13 20:59:30 +0000 (+0000), Sean Mooney wrote:
[...]

Yep, this trips me up fairly often as well. The pattern of serving
multiple versions of documentation is a fairly widespread one, far
beyond just OpenStack circles, so maybe we should look at some other
examples and see if we can reverse engineer how they manage to
direct search results to their latest versions. For example, why do
searches for Python module names return results under
https://docs.python.org/3/ before they return results for
https://docs.python.org/3.5/ ? I briefly skimmed the page sources
for some examples but nothing jumped out at me, nor did the site's
robots.txt provide any insight. Perhaps SEO specialists know what
trick is at play there?

Sean Mooney

March 13, 2020 at 3:59 PM

On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 15:46 -0500, Jimmy McArthur wrote:

Sorry - I accidentally left Zuul keywords and examples in there. Fixed 
below:

Jimmy McArthur <mailto:jimmy@openstack.org>
March 13, 2020 at 3:27 PM
Hi all -

We've contracted a professional SEO firm to help improve search 
placement for all OSF projects.  I'd like to crowd source this on each 
of the project mailing lists, so the community is able to be 
involved.  Could you all help out in providing the below:

“Wish List” of keywords: 8-12 big terms you think fit your domain (if 
you only have 4-5 to share, fewer is okay)
- open infrastructure
- ?

At least 3 competitors
- AWS
- ?

Any other input on positioning, offerings, etc. that you think will 
help best filter for relevance
- ?


honestly the only think i would like to see is fixing the search result so that the 'latest' version of all our doc
are at the top of the list instead of pike.
the docs for our older release always come up first and its hard fo fine the direct link to the 'latest' version which
tracks master.

granted i have it save in my broswer history but when users are looking for docs on things it would be nice if they got
the more recent docs.

Cheers,
Jimmy

Jimmy McArthur

March 13, 2020 at 3:46 PM

Sorry - I accidentally left Zuul keywords and examples in there. Fixed below:

Jimmy McArthur

March 13, 2020 at 3:27 PM

Hi all -

We've contracted a professional SEO firm to help improve search placement for all OSF projects. I'd like to crowd source this on each of the project mailing lists, so the community is able to be involved. Could you all help out in providing the below:

“Wish List” of keywords: 8-12 big terms you think fit your domain (if you only have 4-5 to share, fewer is okay)
- open source ci
- ?

At least 3 competitors
- Jenkins
- ?

Any other input on positioning, offerings, etc. that you think will help best filter for relevance
- ?

Cheers,
Jimmy