WEB: SCN: Portal or Destination

[patrick]

Rod,

Thanks for posting that list. I hadn't considered SCN's placement
among others.

Google searches and ranks by sites linked to those specified sites.
The more links that other sites to your sites is what determines your
placement.

A few of these sites we simply can't compete with because they are
very specific and would beat us each time. The UW, Seattle Mariners,
topic specific sites.

Seems like SCN does very well among general Seattle-related
information sites. And the other ones have had deep pockets and some
are publications.

If the goal is to hit toward the top of the Google hit list, then the
way, I suppose, is to have others linked to us. 

I suppose we have to come up with a number of strategies. I've had a
few.

I have been working with a woman who wants to be the editor for
Seazine. She has experience as an editor. We've met a couple of times
and have been in contact with each other via email over the last
month.

There is the site redesign and logo work. That is moving along.

Also, I've been sending tickles to friends to write. It seems to take
a lot of time fishing to catch a fish.

There are other things I have been working on and I will be posting
those to the site very shortly.

Patrick



--- Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org> wrote:
> > The point and intent of the message has been missed. People
> > tend to be literal about what they read and see. They miss the
> > point.
> 
> Patrick, 
> 
>    Literal or not, missed or not, pointed or not, here's who
> Google says you have to compete with for people's good opinion
> of your efforts as a site about Seattle. What do you think we
> could do better than these sites, among the core things that
> draws people to them and that they do particularly well? There's
> a lot to consider here about what we should and shouldn't do.
> 
> Searched the web for Seattle. Results 1 - 10 of about 5,360,000.
> 
>    The Seattle Times Home Page
>    City of Seattle's Official Web Site
>    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
>    SeattleWeekly.com
>    seattle.sidewalk.com
>    University of Washington Home Page
>    The Official Site of the Seattle Mariners
>    Seattle Indymedia
>    Seattle Aquarium
>    Seattle Art Museum
> 
> Searched the web for Seattle. Results 11 - 20 of about 5,360,000.
> 
>    Welcome to Seattle University
>    The Official Site of the Seattle Seahawks
>    seattle.yahoo.com
>    Seattle, the Emerald City [seattle.net]
>    Seattle Pacific University
>    Seattle Public Library Home Page
>    Port of Seattle, Seatac Airport, Seaport
>    Seattle Music, Dining, Arts, Movies [www.seattle.com]
>    Weather Underground: Seattle, Washington Forecast
>    Seattle Community Network
> 
> Rod Clark
> 


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