Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Jan
Nieuwenhuizen<address@hidden> wrote:

>> It's not that; Jan thought you were objecting to having:
>>   LilyPond is Free Software and part of the GNU project.
>> on the home page.
>>
>> Frankly, I'm still not conviced that's a good thing to add, so
>
> We need "free" (ie: gratis) "music" and "software" to work
> as search terms.  We are at position #223 when you search for
> "music software", where our most direct opponents are on
> google's front page.
>
> Why is this so hard to see?

I side with the general recommendation that Google gives, which is to
focus on building a good website, and trusting that the resulting
search ranking reflect reasonable metrics on quality.  There are
specific guidelines on

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

For obvious reasons, I do not want to involve myself in this
discussion any further.

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