This site generates a link to a random page of the Mozilla Javascript reference, with various keywords added in title and alt attributes. It would be better if they used text instead of an image as the link anchor.
Here's how this should be done instead:
* Register a new domain, say javascriptdocs.com or javascriptreference.org
* The new domain should be used for hosting the JS reference as well as the link generator. Using an unrelated domain means you are wasting a lot of links from people that want to support the cause.
* The documentation should get a SEO treatment by someone who knows what he's doing. You need good titles, sensible site structure, a small excerpt to be used on top of each page and in the meta descriptions.
* Contact people and websites that link to bad docs, make them aware of the better docs you are offering and get them to switch.
* A reward program for people that put up links, refer visitors from their website, etc. Give them a Mozilla t-shirt or a hat or something.
If there is going to be an effort to improve the actual docs, not just their Google ranking, I would be happy to provide some free consulting on SEO, site structure, usability, promotion, etc. You can find contact information in my profile.
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This site generates a link to a random page of the Mozilla Javascript reference, with various keywords added in title and alt attributes. It would be better if they used text instead of an image as the link anchor.
Here's how this should be done instead:
* Register a new domain, say javascriptdocs.com or javascriptreference.org
* The new domain should be used for hosting the JS reference as well as the link generator. Using an unrelated domain means you are wasting a lot of links from people that want to support the cause.
* The documentation should get a SEO treatment by someone who knows what he's doing. You need good titles, sensible site structure, a small excerpt to be used on top of each page and in the meta descriptions.
* Contact people and websites that link to bad docs, make them aware of the better docs you are offering and get them to switch.
* A reward program for people that put up links, refer visitors from their website, etc. Give them a Mozilla t-shirt or a hat or something.
Good stuff...
it would also pay to look less like a communist movement.
I don't think many people worry about robot dinosaur communists, now that the Cold War is over.
Communists are so 1989, nobody really cares anymore.
thanks bobds.
we are definitely looking for ways to improve seo on the mdn/mdc website.
not much has been done in that area for a while, but that is going to change very soon.
- jay, mdn product manager
Those are just a few hastily written thoughts.
If there is going to be an effort to improve the actual docs, not just their Google ranking, I would be happy to provide some free consulting on SEO, site structure, usability, promotion, etc. You can find contact information in my profile.