On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:15:05PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:55:57PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:39:47PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> >> >Well, Gary (Gary R. Van Sickle) is the maintainer of that page, so.... >> >> >> >> Ack. I missed that fact. >> >> >> >> Don't send Gary email about this! I'm sure he doesn't need it. >> > >> >Ooooops! Too late! ;-) Only kiddin' I'm sure that's not a worry. Perhaps >> >changing >> > >> >"Run this program any time you want to install a cygwin package." >> > >> >to >> > >> >"It is recommended that you use setup.exe whenever you want to install a >> >cygwin package. If you install or update packages manually, you are doing so >> >at your own risk." >> > >> >at the end of the third paragraph below "What's New and How Do I Get It?"... >> >> I don't think people are actually reading that paragraph at all, though. I >> think that's part of the problem. > >As a preventative measure, how about adding some embedded tags into the >cygwin.com home or install pages so that they'll have a higher hit-point >ratio for various search combinations. Something like adding: > ><!-- >cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install >how to install cygwin how to install cygwin how to install cygwin >cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install >how to install cygwin how to install cygwin how to install cygwin >cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install >how to install cygwin how to install cygwin how to install cygwin >etc... >--> > >The next time the various web crawlers inspect the page they might give a >larger weight to this page for the various word combinations. Or have >web crawlers changed such that this doesn't work anymore?
I'll try that. Thanks. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
