Re: OSAF redirect

Mikeal Rogers wrote:
> We can change the page title to something like "OSAF -- Home of Chandler 
> Project". And make half of the osafoundation.org page a large image link 
> to chandlerproject -- something nice looking like the one on mozilla.org.

Not a bad idea.

> If people don't click on the link then I really doubt they would have 
> clicked on the link to visit hub or downloaded Chandler Desktop so we 
> didn't actually lose any users and we keep our page rank.

I think people don't click on the link because they don't see it. 
Thought process: "I'm looking for this chandler thing because I've heard 
it is interesting, but I seem to have found some non-profit software 
organization, oh well, on to next interesting thing."

It is just a theory, but I've seen this happen when looking over 
people's shoulders.

We could test the theory of course.

> All of these people who aren't going from osafoundation.org to 
> chandlerproject.org, are they deciding they don't want to check out the 
> product for some reason? Did they click on the link in the blog just to 
> check out organzation/product but not download it ( I do this all the 
> time by the way )? The redirect doesn't help us get them as users and 
> does drop our page rank.

If we have *one* chance to communicate information about what Chandler 
is, we want the material on chandlerproject.org, not osafoundation.org. 
Even if it doesn't lead to a download that visit, we've sent the message 
that we want. That said, I agree that dropping our page rank is probably 
a mistake.

Cheers,
Katie
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