[wp-forums] Request to edit .ORG profiles

[Joost de Valk]

This is negating all of reality, in which probably 30-40% of traffic, if
not more, to wordpress support forums comes from Google.


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I think the assumption that the WordPress *support* forums should care or
> bother with SEO is wrong. The support forum exists to bring WordPress users
> together with WordPress community volunteers, to help solve user problems.
> The point about the support forums being linked in the WP admin area is
> relevant because it means that the support forum doesn't need SEO to
> accomplish its purpose.
>
> I don't think forum mods should waste their time "fixing" support forum
> content on the basis of SEO - whether the SEO impacts the forum itself, or
> the site of the user who added the content. Forum mods' time would be
> better-spent reiterating to users that the purpose of posting in the forums
> is to ask/answer questions about user problems with WordPress, and not to
> drive up one's SEO.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > it's great to see that you've become such an SEO expert all of a sudden.
> > But tell me, if that would prevent WordPress from getting issues, ever,
> how
> > do you think large news sites and other HUGE brands got burned in recent
> > updates? Oh, right, Google got smarter than footer links.
> >
> > Sorry but it's going to take more than this to convince anyone.
> >
> > About your remark: re accountability and history: true. We'd need that.
> >
> > Best
> > Joost
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Mark Riley <mark at automattic.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 16 July 2014 12:17, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > And that's where you're wrong. If nothing happens, there IS a long
> term
> > > > risk for wordpress.org's SEO.
> > > >
> > >
> > > << snipped old stuff >>
> > >
> > > Given that the .org forums are linked from every WP blog I doubt we
> need
> > to
> > > be running scared.
> > >
> > > I would absolutely oppose any editing unless we have a history and
> > > notifications of all edited posts.
> > > To allow this sort of editing without full accountability would be a
> > > disaster.
> > >
> > > M.
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