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posted 1y ago by ajekb78‭  ·  edited 1y ago by ajekb78‭

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#4: Post edited by user avatar ajekb78‭ · 2023-07-21T00:09:41Z (over 1 year ago)
  • To be blunt, improve visibility.
  • People by and large don't know codidact exists, and for the few who do there is very little in the way of public visibility of the content the site now has.
  • For a lot of people the first place they look for answers to anything is not here, or SO, but google. As an experiment I took the actual wording of one of the questions from math.codidact and pasted it into google. The first result linked to SO, and there was no codidact link anywhere on the first page. It's not even about paying for advertising, it's about ensuring the content gets to feature prominently, day in day out, in what is **the** gateway to the entire internet for a great many people.
  • I have no idea how to improve that situation, but I have no doubt that to drive real community growth the site *and its questions and answers* need to become much, much more directly discoverable through mainstream search engines. Hopefully the communities have some SEO gurus who could suggest ways of improving that.
  • To be blunt, improve visibility.
  • People by and large don't know codidact exists, and for the few who do there is very little in the way of public visibility of the content the site now has.
  • For a lot of people the first place they look for answers to anything is not here, or SO, but google. As an experiment I took the actual wording of one of the questions from math.codidact and pasted it into google. The first result linked to SO, and there was no codidact link anywhere on the first page. It's not even about paying for a bit of advertising for the site here and there, it's about ensuring the content gets to feature prominently, day in day out, in what is **the** gateway to the entire internet for a great many people.
  • I have no idea how to improve that situation, but I have no doubt that to drive real community growth the site *and its questions and answers* need to become much, much more directly discoverable through mainstream search engines. Hopefully the communities have some SEO gurus who could suggest ways of improving that.
#3: Post edited by user avatar ajekb78‭ · 2023-07-21T00:08:49Z (over 1 year ago)
clarification
  • To be blunt, improve visibility.
  • People by and large don't know codidact exists, and for the few who do there is very little in the way of public visibility of the content the site now has.
  • For a lot of people the first place they look for answers to anything is not here, or SO, but google. As an experiment I took the actual wording of one of the questions from math.codidact and pasted it into google. The first result linked to SO, and there was no codidact link anywhere on the first page. It's not even about paying for advertising, it's about ensuring the content gets to feature in what is **the** gateway to the entire internet for a great many people.
  • I have no idea how to improve that situation, but I have no doubt that to drive real community growth the site *and its questions and answers* need to become much, much more directly discoverable through mainstream search engines. Hopefully the communities have some SEO gurus who could suggest ways of improving that.
  • To be blunt, improve visibility.
  • People by and large don't know codidact exists, and for the few who do there is very little in the way of public visibility of the content the site now has.
  • For a lot of people the first place they look for answers to anything is not here, or SO, but google. As an experiment I took the actual wording of one of the questions from math.codidact and pasted it into google. The first result linked to SO, and there was no codidact link anywhere on the first page. It's not even about paying for advertising, it's about ensuring the content gets to feature prominently, day in day out, in what is **the** gateway to the entire internet for a great many people.
  • I have no idea how to improve that situation, but I have no doubt that to drive real community growth the site *and its questions and answers* need to become much, much more directly discoverable through mainstream search engines. Hopefully the communities have some SEO gurus who could suggest ways of improving that.
#2: Post edited by user avatar ajekb78‭ · 2023-07-21T00:08:08Z (over 1 year ago)
  • To be blunt, improve visibility.
  • People by and large don't know codidact exists, and for the few who do there is very little in the way of public visibility of the content the site now has.
  • For a lot of people the first place they look for answers to anything is not here, or SO, but google. As an experiment I took the actual wording of one of the questions from math.codidact and pasted it into google. The first result linked to SO, and there was no codidact link anywhere on the first page.
  • I have no idea how to improve that situation, but I have no doubt that to drive real community growth the site *and its questions and answers* need to become much, much more directly discoverable through mainstream search engines. Hopefully the communities have some SEO gurus who could suggest ways of improving that.
  • To be blunt, improve visibility.
  • People by and large don't know codidact exists, and for the few who do there is very little in the way of public visibility of the content the site now has.
  • For a lot of people the first place they look for answers to anything is not here, or SO, but google. As an experiment I took the actual wording of one of the questions from math.codidact and pasted it into google. The first result linked to SO, and there was no codidact link anywhere on the first page. It's not even about paying for advertising, it's about ensuring the content gets to feature in what is **the** gateway to the entire internet for a great many people.
  • I have no idea how to improve that situation, but I have no doubt that to drive real community growth the site *and its questions and answers* need to become much, much more directly discoverable through mainstream search engines. Hopefully the communities have some SEO gurus who could suggest ways of improving that.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar ajekb78‭ · 2023-07-21T00:06:41Z (over 1 year ago) 
To be blunt, improve visibility.

People by and large don't know codidact exists, and for the few who do there is very little in the way of public visibility of the content the site now has.

For a lot of people the first place they look for answers to anything is not here, or SO, but google. As an experiment I took the actual wording of one of the questions from math.codidact and pasted it into google. The first result linked to SO, and there was no codidact link anywhere on the first page.

I have no idea how to improve that situation, but I have no doubt that to drive real community growth the site *and its questions and answers* need to become much, much more directly discoverable through mainstream search engines. Hopefully the communities have some SEO gurus who could suggest ways of improving that.