[kde-promo] (no subject)

[Carl Symons]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> Answering in private mail with the KDE web team in Cc.
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Carl Symons <carlsymons at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Kevin Kyzer <kevin at k3v.in> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> My name is Kevin Kyzer. I'm an SEO and online marketing professional from
>>> Gilbert, Arizona, USA. I've been using KDE for over 5 years now, and would
>>> love to give back to the community in my own special way. I specialize in
>>> organic link building, and improving a wide variety of on page and off-site
>>> search engine ranking factors. Any suggestions on what I could do for you to
>>> help?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Kevin Kyzer
>>>
>>
>> Hello Kevin,
>>
>> Thanks for contacting KDE Promo.
>>
>> The main meeting of the KDE Community is coming up in about 2 weeks in
>> Tallinn, Estonia. There will be discussions about marketing and
>> promotion that will probably influence the use of online marketing
>> such as you do.
>>
>> As you can see at kde.org, there are quite a number of KDE websites.
>> And there is no central authority coordinating them.
>
> Which is just plain wrong, we have a KDE www team and the sysadmins
> who administer our servers. It would be best to actually forward him
> to the web team if he wants to participate, but from my POV, I don't
> that his SEO skills are of much use. I would be gladyl proven wrong :)

I understand and appreciate your point of view. In large part I agree.

Here's where I was coming from with this guy...he's a marketeer
(presumably). What I wrote was intended for someone who, generously
speaking, wants to help KDE marketing. There is no central authority
coordinating _KDE Marketing strategy on the web_. If the www team is
doing this, I would love to hear about what the strategy is and how it
came to be. One of the main KDE public channels is the Dot. I am not
aware of any overt www team involvement in Dot marketing or
positioning.

I completely agree with your SEO statement. Said another way, SEO =
tricking Google. In my view, it is basically a scam, and at odds with
what KDE is about.

So taken together, I wasn't willing to get sucked into finding ways he
could "help" us.

Actually, I am not aware of the www team as a team. I know Ingo and
Ben and enjoy working with them on web stuff. I'm sure there are other
people I know who are on that team, but I don't know them as www team
members, but rather as individuals.

Carl


>
> Also JFYI: at the FSFE we recently got some elaborate SPAM offering
> help for exactly that, also from people saying they would be
> supporters of Free Software. In effect they were just trying to place
> links.
>
> Regards, Myriam
>