Jeztah
Active member
I'm not privvy to the plans of the core team regarding web presence, please excuse this if there are plans already in place.
I've been working as an IT consultant for myself since '00. I've also been creating and running community web sites (forums etc) as a "hobby" almost as long. I'm not going to say what or where but I will say I make 2x on the interwebs than I make being an IT guy, and I make real good money doing IT. I guess I'm only trying to say that I'm not an idiot when it comes to these things.
Constructive criticism inbound:
The #1 problem I see with the DASH web presence is the lack of good SEO. This forum as an example: there are limited meta tags, no meaningful description for the site and no meta keywords on each page to help Google understand how or where to classify the site..... The overall site description is "The Largest Forum for the Dash Currency" which to me is ....meh. I also see that the home page here is "nofollow" meaning that bots just won't index it.....not sure if that's a mistake or not. Forums can bring a ton of traffic due to the large amount of pages that can be indexed. dashpay.io has a little better SEO than this site's, but only a little.
Our official Wikipedia (not our own wiki) needs work, it is one place "G" pulls info from in the search results.
There needs to be an active blog, an official Twitter and Facebook, even Google+. These items need to be professionally run by people who take it seriously. No offence intended here: The DASH Dalmatian is fine and good, but it is more of a cheerleading/fan/tongue-in-cheek account rather than something to take overly seriously by potential investors. The dog is cute, but it's not something that should be considered official. We aren't Doge after all.
These are easy things we can do that will help boost positive visibility. Maybe a professional SEO/marketing/web reputation company should be hired in the future that will take over everything I mentioned above and have it all work together properly instead of against each other, basically clean things up out there in Google. I don't like seeing the negative DASH results in Google overshadowing the good.
I am sure there are others here who have a basic understanding of SEO here that would agree with my observations.
Proposal time?
I've been working as an IT consultant for myself since '00. I've also been creating and running community web sites (forums etc) as a "hobby" almost as long. I'm not going to say what or where but I will say I make 2x on the interwebs than I make being an IT guy, and I make real good money doing IT. I guess I'm only trying to say that I'm not an idiot when it comes to these things.
Constructive criticism inbound:
The #1 problem I see with the DASH web presence is the lack of good SEO. This forum as an example: there are limited meta tags, no meaningful description for the site and no meta keywords on each page to help Google understand how or where to classify the site..... The overall site description is "The Largest Forum for the Dash Currency" which to me is ....meh. I also see that the home page here is "nofollow" meaning that bots just won't index it.....not sure if that's a mistake or not. Forums can bring a ton of traffic due to the large amount of pages that can be indexed. dashpay.io has a little better SEO than this site's, but only a little.
Our official Wikipedia (not our own wiki) needs work, it is one place "G" pulls info from in the search results.
There needs to be an active blog, an official Twitter and Facebook, even Google+. These items need to be professionally run by people who take it seriously. No offence intended here: The DASH Dalmatian is fine and good, but it is more of a cheerleading/fan/tongue-in-cheek account rather than something to take overly seriously by potential investors. The dog is cute, but it's not something that should be considered official. We aren't Doge after all.
These are easy things we can do that will help boost positive visibility. Maybe a professional SEO/marketing/web reputation company should be hired in the future that will take over everything I mentioned above and have it all work together properly instead of against each other, basically clean things up out there in Google. I don't like seeing the negative DASH results in Google overshadowing the good.
I am sure there are others here who have a basic understanding of SEO here that would agree with my observations.
Proposal time?
