On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 09:42:05AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
I discussed keyword focused articles recently with Rikki Endsley, an
editor for
opensource.com. She told me one way to boost visibility,
searchability, and site visits is to target articles directly at the
things people are searching for e.g. on Google.
The
http://keywordtool.io site discovers popular searches based on
keywords. I entered "Fedora how to" and here is the list it retrieved
for me:
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/392172/84893614
While some of the searches are not necessarily good ones for a short,
targeted article, many are. I would propose that we use this list to
seed article pitches and assign them to new writers, rather than doing
just arbitrary technical articles which may not perform as well over
the long term.
By the way, Rikki mentioned that titling the article just like a
search can help boost its visibility as well, e.g. "How to start sshd
on Fedora."
Sorry to reply to myself, but since no one else commented... :-)
Something I was considering today was whether these topics all make
sense to include in the RSS feed. Let's say I write a "shorty"
article from this list, like how to enable the SSH server. Do we want
that to automatically end up in the feed at the top? Does it matter?
I have a feeling that it probably doesn't, but if an editor or other
knowledgeable person had some information to help guide, it would be
helpful.
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