On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/9/13 8:45 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: >> On 08.10.2013 22:33, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> janI wrote: >>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/ ... >>>> So my first question is >>>> - what does a MAC page have to do here. MAC is a supported platform, not >>>> third party ? >>>> - why does the porting page not have a link to the mac page ? >>> >>> The Mac version used to be a port (you can still find outdated >>> information around, with the name "Aqua Port"), but it has been a fully >>> supported version since 3.0.0 or around. >> >> Yes, OOo 3.0 was our first version with Mac as fully supported platform. >> >>> So the porting page does not link to it since it's not a port. And the >>> URL is... well, historical, but I wouldn't oppose to move it outside >>> porting/ if we can setup redirects that won't break search engines. >> >> +1 for just redirecting to our download page. > > a redirect will work but who will miss the page? We should be more open > to delete outdated content and simply drop it. We have too many outdated > pages that help nobody and are more confusing than useful. >
The point is when a user queries Google for terms like "OpenOffice for Mac" that is the #1 page on the results list. Users do this and visit that page around 4000 times per day. If we merely deleted that page then these 4000 people would get a 404 error. After a period of time, probably a few weeks, Google would update their index and another page would be the #1 search result and get that traffic. The #2 link is a CNet page, so the traffic would probably go there and not to our website. If we redirect to a generic page, like our home page, then we get no 404 error. But as Google updates its index it would see that the redirected page is not really relevant to the query "OpenOffice for Mac" and would reorder its results so the traffic would still point to CNet. The only way to preserve this traffic is to have a relevant page about OpenOffice for Mac. It doesn't need to be complicated. But it needs to have enough discussion about using OpenOffice on the Mac to look relevant to Google and Bing. I suggested such a page in the past, even outlined it, but no Mac volunteers ever completed it: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/product/mac.mdtext Regards, -Rob > Juergen > >> >> Herbert >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
