Maybe somebody knows a SEO specialist who is willing to look into the matter? And give us some tips...
I'm not a specialist but because I build websites for my clients, I ever spent some time learning SEO.
These are some mayor things that affect a website's SEO score:
- The domain name contains the targeted keywords
- The URL contains the targeted keywords
- Backlink from .edu, .org, .gov domains
- Do follow link from high rank and traffic sites (cnn.com, reddit.com, etc)
- High quality and unique contents
- Update regularly
- Not link to bad neighborhoods (p*rn, s*x, drug, etc)
Nowadays with the fast growing of social media, search engines also put some weight on the social media mentions.
I personally think Free Pascal does a good job in SEO. At least this forum is the first item if you search using the keyword "pascal forum" using DuckDuckGo. I don't think renaming Free Pascal is good. It may sounds nice in human ears but it will ruin the previous built SEO. It can regain the score but it needs time and lots of efforts.
I personally think if we want to improve the SEO we should put more efforts on social media like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. Also update and improve the wiki. The wiki has too many outdated information, not good for for both human and search engines.
We could maybe put meta tags and standard sentences containing ALL the right combination of words on EVERY webpage we create, starting with the freepascal and lazarus website and our forums and personal blogs.
Meta tags are often abused and Google no longer values meta tags.
https://support.seomanager.com/article/30-keywords-meta-field-is-no-longer-used-by-googleMay we can make our forum and wiki's more friendly for use with mobile devices?
When I'm not sitting in front of my computer, I often visit this forum using my mobile phone. It does not look good on my phone.
When they want to know something the search on Youtube first.
Yes YouTube. Youngsters like YouTube, not my favorite but I also spend some time watching it.
I am glad to see some nice users post their tutorials on YouTube but I wish to see more:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_videosIf we rename, the new name must be "Bamboo"
No, don't use the name. I own a Bamboo, it is a brand name of a discontinued model of Wacom tablet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom#Discontinued