RE: suggestions

Actually I was wrong - the /International page scores 9/10 !  The GEO
Core and WS pages scores 8/10.

RI
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Richard Ishida
W3C

tel: +44 1753 480 292
http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ 
http://www.w3.org/International/ 
http://www.w3.org/International/geo/ 

See the W3C Internationalization FAQ page
http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida
> Sent: 25 July 2003 20:13
> To: 'Tex Texin'; 'Martin Duerst'
> Cc: 'GEO'
> Subject: RE: suggestions
> 
> 
> I was reading a very interesting web page about how to improve your
> ranking on google 
> http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/google.shtml   It
> suggested downloading the Google toolbar - which on the face 
> of it looks quite interesting.
> 
> According to the toolbar http://www.w3.org has a page ranking 
> of 10/10. http://www.w3.org/International/ achieves a ranking 
> of 8/10, which I thought is pretty good too.
> 
> I was also intrigued by some of the languages available (see 
> the attached picture) - especially given that they seem to 
> use an rfc3066 type label on the download page.  I wonder 
> what they say for pig-latin, or elmer-fudd.  Let me know if 
> you have time to find out :)
> 
> 
> RI
> 
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> W3C
> 
> tel: +44 1753 480 292
> http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tex Texin [mailto:tex@i18nguy.com]
> > Sent: 24 July 2003 23:57
> > To: Martin Duerst
> > Cc: ishida@w3.org; 'GEO'
> > Subject: Re: suggestions
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, but we shouldn't presume we will be at the top.
> > I wouldn't doubt that it is likely we will be near, but
> > banking on it is silly.
> > 
> > The main w3c pages are near the top, but certainly not all. I
> > do a number of searches where pages from other sites 
> > dominate. The key to making a page have a high rank is links 
> > to the page and proper use of keywords that you want searches 
> > to find the page with. (e.g. bidi, unicode, double-byte, etc.)
> > 
> > I am just suggesting we use something that makes the page
> > easy for people to pull up.
> > 
> > tex
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Martin Duerst wrote:
> > > 
> > > At 17:42 03/07/24 -0400, Tex Texin wrote:
> > > 
> > > >I think as a name "W3C Internationalization FAQ" is fine,
> > but it is
> > > >non-unqiue so if anyone googles for that title they get 
> 2780 other
> > > >pages, and it is hard to narrow it down further.
> > > 
> > > Good point. That is of course okay if we are at the top. And it 
> > > should be possible to do that because:
> > > - W3C does seem to have quite a bit of Google-Karma
> > > - We will have all three words, in that order, in the title,...
> > > - We will of course produce more and more content and will
> > >    be linked from other places
> > > 
> > > So I'm not too worried, but of course if we have a better idea, I
> > > don't object.
> > > 
> > > Regards,    Martin.
> > > 
> > > >Almost all web pages about web technology mention W3C, many have
> > > >FAQs, and a good number mention internationalization...
> > > >
> > > >Personally, I would stick the GEO in there to make it 
> identifiable
> > > >and credit the group, while making it clear in the text or 
> > somewhere
> > > >that it is open to others in (just?) the WG to submit.
> > > >
> > > >If not GEO, let's make up some other acronym or 
> identifier that is
> > > >memorable and uniquely searchable to make it easy to find.
> > > >
> > > >Anyone got any fun acronyms?
> > > >
> > > >TWINQ (pronounced twink!) The Web InternationalizatioN Questions
> > > >WIN-FAQ
> > > >
> > > >Richard's I18n Almanac? ;-)
> > > >
> > > >(I'll work on this later...)
> > > >tex
> > > >
> > > >Richard Ishida wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Title repaired. Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > The page heading shouldn't say GEO, since this is a WG thing -
> > > > > although we do mention that GEO members are principally 
> > > > > responsible. (I'm still hoping that we might get occasional 
> > > > > contributions from core and ws folks).
> > > > >
> > > > > I too have been wondering about the "Questions & 
> Answers" thing
> > > > > lately. I'm very tempted to call this a FAQ list - like 
> > everyone
> > > > > else does, and like I had to to explain clearly what it
> > was while
> > > > > doing outreach at LISA.
> > > > >
> > > > > Why don't we rechristen it as "W3C Internationalization FAQ" ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Votes or counter proposals, please.
> > > > > RI
> > 
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