[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1719: Improve google search results for phrases like "tahoe file storage"

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#1719: Improve google search results for phrases like "tahoe file storage"
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 Reporter:  amiller                 |          Owner:
     Type:  defect                  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |      Milestone:  undecided
Component:  website                 |        Version:  n/a
 Keywords:  transparency usability  |  Launchpad Bug:
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 Tahoe-LAFS could benefit from some SEO.

 If you search for "tahoe lafs", the first result is tahoe-lafs.org -
 straight to where you'd expect. However, if you search for
 [https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tahoe%20secure%20file%20storage
 "tahoe secure file storage"],
 [https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tahoe%20secure "tahoe
 secure"], or other reasonable phrases (omitting "lafs"), the results are
 much less useful. The [https://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html
 pycon talk notes] tend to show up as the first result -they're filled with
 allmydata.org links that correctly redirect to https://tahoe-lafs.org, at
 least.

 {{{
 <zooko> I think we may be telling google not to index any of https
 ://tahoe-lafs.org
         with our robots.txt, which would be the first thing to change for
 that.
 <zooko> There might be a ticket about the terrible anti-SEO.
 }}}

 Beyond that, perhaps by helping web crawlers access the site, we can
 benefit from the external search engines when searching for tickets, code,
 etc. (See #1691 for trac search delays)

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Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1719>
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