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'''Support''' - Robin Foster | '''Support''' - Robin Foster | ||
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*Exciting week: Robin's stewardship is volunteers; has been in contact with them including "submit Content" has __ items that are being added; people with more expertise - would they like to accept this assignment?; many beginners, yet many are wanting to serve many hours per week; training lessons; recording their assignments (google spreadsheet) and monitoring (watch the pages) their contributions; getting them under the stewardship of the moderators; they are responding very well to their assignments; | |||
**Until they become comfortable with doing more on their own. | |||
**The ones contributing to a foreign country in English, encouraging them to contribute same content on the foreign language site | |||
*Holding pattern on moderators - getting the new volunteers in place, then going to activate the moderators to assume responsibilities | |||
**Creating a Google community for moderators so they work together. | |||
**Dennis Knox and Howard Camp have direct responsibility for moderators | |||
*About half-way through consultation process - giving them a small assignment so they are not inactive so we don't lose them. | |||
**Also the training lessons are being written -- they will get them once a week. They will also be on the Wiki in the near future. Also receiving feedback from them, from Support Team, and from moderators for effectiveness and clarity in prep for putting on the wiki | |||
'''GS-WAC''' - David Dilts | '''GS-WAC''' - David Dilts | ||
*2 main topics 16 May: 46 volunteers world-wide- 10-20 hours/wk; many interested in the already well-populated states - wanting to get them populated | |||
*SEO expert Luiz Bonilla: to improve the optimization -- asked for a county template to apply to all counties in US and Canada. Take to community and moderators before project | |||
**Suggestions on a specific county: put a key word everywhere on a page -- Google ends up penalizing, such as if every heading had "Boston Massachusetts." Suggest Capitalize the word Genealogy. | |||
**The suggestion from the Community Council to add the county at the end of each link would end up in penalizing by Google and perhaps other search engines, per David's understanding. | |||
**Certain things on a page that do not show up on a google search: probably what is in a table will not show. | |||
**Most important factor by far is the title of the page. The first 154 characters of text are very important to ranking. Other areas affect: links to other sites and links in from other sites; also how many are linking from Facebook, Twitter, etc. | |||
**Can affect google searches by selecting best key words. Genealogy is the best. Get a tool that will neutralize the history of your previous searches. David, Nathan, and others are working deeply with the SEO's now on many county pages. | |||
**Suggested on Utah SEOs - move the county formation later - since first 154 characters are most critical after the title of the page. is what ranks above comparative sites. | |||
**Subtle differences - dozens of other internet sites competing for attention. When there is stiff competition for the Google link (like Ancestry, Fold3, etc.) | |||
*David has requested the minutes on the Wiki. This will come in the future. For now, transparency will come through this liaison meeting. Ray of hope that minutes can be posted. | |||
=== 8 May 2013 === | === 8 May 2013 === | ||