Re: [dita-fa-edboard] Cool site stats

[Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@oasis-open.org>]

On Monday 29 October 2007 16:22, Bob Doyle wrote:
> Hi Carol,
>
> Very interesting. Thanks to Neil.
>
> My candidate for the most valuable statistic is the 50,000 clicks on the
> moribund New York DUG page.
>
> We should all scratch heads and locate someone in the NY area to satisfy
> that demand.

With work on search, SEO, and 'recommendations', we may be able to satisfy 
that demand locally especially if we identify it as an opportunity to 
coalesce the community.  The way it works it that you identify the top 
keywords people are searching for; then identify the search results users are 
currently receiving for those queries; look at 'conversions' or 
click-throughs; and manage recommendations that you can inject into search 
results to direct surfers to the things they are seeking and that we want to 
suggest.  Of course with enough community, you let the community make the 
recommendations through 'social networking'.  There is a lot of this type of 
development activity going on within the global Drupal community so that I 
expect OASIS Technology Services will continue to have exciting news to bring 
forward to the DITA.xml.org community.

Cheers,

Greg