Re: Hosting and SEO for Scheme implementations Lassi Kortela 29 Dec 2020 17:43 UTC

> Of course not, if domain will not be redirected any more, Google can start
> indexing it, but it probably will need some work to tell Google that it's no
> longer redirect,

Right, that makes sense.

> easiest is to upload sitemap for that site to google web
> master tools (after verification ownership), it's always good to have
> sitemap.xml file, even if there are only few static pages, from what I've seen
> pages are indexed faster after change, if there is sitemap. So if you work on
> SEO of the page (improve the html structure) you will not need to wait so
> much to see effects.
>
> The site will probably need some SEO help, to make it to first page when
> someone do search related to the language. I can help also with that, but
> probably will not require lot of work, since when site will be ready people
> will automatically link to it.
>
> Also I can update links on Wikipedia that probably will give lot of traffic
> and improve SEO. I don't do much edits on English Wikipedia, but I'm Polish
> Wikipedia Redactor BTW.

Once again, this is excellent advice! Thank you for anything you can do
for the domain.

What's the usual way to generate sitemap.xml files? Would be great if it
was automatic somehow. Do the files benefit from hand editing?

Several Scheme implementations already have articles on the English
Wikipedia, and the articles display to the implementations' homepages
URLs and link to them. If some of the URLs were *.scheme.org, that would
be very nice. It also means a lot of reputation is riding on the domain
so we need to do our job well :)