[Chicago-talk] YAPC 2017, and suboptimal Perl SEO

[James E Keenan]

On 12/06/2016 02:37 PM, Doug Bell wrote:
>
>> On Dec 6, 2016, at 12:39 AM, Mike Fragassi <mikefrag at gmail.com
>> <mailto:mikefrag at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> YAPC/TPC 2017 was recently announced as being in Washington DC, but I
>> couldn't remember the dates.  It took me a good ten minutes of
>> googling to locate the details, because it just does not show up on
>> Google, at all, at least for me.  Nor is the information visible on
>> http://www.perlfoundation.org/, or http://yapc.org <http://yapc.org/>,
>> or http://www.yapcna.org/ (which errors out) or http://perl.org
>> <http://perl.org/>, or even the DC Perl Mongers page,
>> http://dc.pm.org/ (which has Cialis spam at the moment).
>>
>> Of course, it pops up right away when I tried https://duckduckgo.com
>> <https://duckduckgo.com/>, but still.
>>
>> In case anyone else is looking for this information:
>>
>>
>> http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/11/the-perl-conference-save-date-2017.html
>>
>
> I've been wanting to use chicago.pm.org <http://chicago.pm.org> for more
> than just announcing meetings when I remember, so if it's SEO you want
> to improve, adding posts to various blogs linking to the announcement
> with good keyword coverage and such is a good way to go about it. I can
> give out commit bits and help with how to use Statocles for anyone who
> wants to post to chicago.pm.org <http://chicago.pm.org>.
>
> I've been trying to post links to blog posts and other such that the
> Chicago Perl Mongers are involved in, but I've been pretty terrible
> about it.
>
>> Apparently the news.perlfoundation.org
>> <http://news.perlfoundation.org/> posts since September are not being
>> promoted to the www.perlfoundation.org
>> <http://www.perlfoundation.org/> page.
>
> Does anyone know who to talk to about that? I know a couple people who
> have expressed frustration about both this problem, and at the general
> lack of opportunities to address the problem.
>
>

These pages are also out-of-date.  They don't even reflect the change in 
the President of TPF.

http://www.perlfoundation.org/who_s_who
http://www.perlfoundation.org/contact_us

I'll BCC some likely suspects.

Jim Keenan