Re: Search-optimising "wpd"

> (Yep, I'm starting a thread about SEO, I've just been sick in my mouth)

Really Jake, I'm ashamed - leave the hall! ;-)

> 
> MDN is such a great resource that I've found myself searching "mdn <a
> topic>" in Google as a first port of call, or to quickly reach an MDN
> page I'm already familiar with. Wikipedia gets similar treatment with
> "wiki <whatever>".
> 
> Web Platform Docs needs something like that, WPD is already used in
> pages, but not enough (as far as I can tell) to make it work in
> searches.
> 
> Basically, I want "wpd gradents" to return me the Web Platform Docs
> about CSS & SVG gradients.

Seriously though - you are bang on the money here - it would be great to achieve the same SEO status with WPD, that MDN enjoys. I do the same as you, when looking up JS syntax.

I'll file a bug to remind us stewards to look into this.

Chris Mills
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Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:47:27 UTC