[FM Discuss] [Admin] Omnibook and Flossmanuals SEO

[Martin Kean]

Hi,


I think the move to Omnibook could be fine once a few issues are resolved, for example improvements needed for the PUBLISH tools, needs a better workflow I think. I am interested in working on this.

How will manuals and user accounts be ported across to Omnibook?

I also agree with Helen that the domains should be retained. Are they registered through SourceFabric?

I like the idea of write.flossmanuals.net and read.flossmanuals.net, which leaves scope for further subdomains.


Martin

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On 22/03/2018 11:50, helen varley jamieson wrote:
>
>  just want to say that we should not lightly let go of the domain
> name. as elisa says, it would be quite a big loss. i haven't followed
> any discussion around it, but since it costs very little to hold onto
> a domain name, why not keep it & point it to the new url?
>
> h : )
>
>
> On 22.03.2018 11:43, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Loosing the url is loosing a hudge SEO, isn't ?
>>
Hi Helen and Elisa,

It's a good discussion :) so just widening out to the discuss list oo.

I agree on the SEO front.
If we can work out a solution to keep URLs intact that would be great.

But actually we did swap URLs a bit recently from
http://en.flossmanuals.net to http://write.flossmanuals.net with a
redirect and google didn't seem too upset

And this is only a factor for new and active books. Ones that are
archived or not being updated - which is most - won't be affected.
Although it might be nice to migrate the top 20 books too.

Preserving the URLs completely would be possible in some ways - and
maybe there are others I haven't thought of
1) setting up or asking BookType to set up a separate instance of omnibook
2) exporting a html zip of each book and pulling that into our own space
and running some script-fu to theme it appropriately
3) pointing something like read.flossmanuals.net at the new server and
seeing if BookType can serve that up as a site alias


3) Is definately worth asking about - I'll do that - it would be a quick
great solution.

  2)  I don't think we have volunteer capacity to make this happen at
the moment but is definately worth investigating if anyone has a bit of
time to play about with that kind of export

1) I don't think we have the capicity to set up an instance and I think
it is too big an ask for a totally separate instance from BookType too.


Thanks
Mick

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