Meeks: A LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice Comparison

Posted Apr 26, 2012 17:34 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (guest, #36106)
In reply to: Meeks: A LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice Comparison by jpnp
Parent article: Meeks: A LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice Comparison

Searching for OpenOffice gets me a LibreOffice link... at the bottom of the second page of results. If this could be changed to top-5 of the first page it would go a long way towards solving this problem.

Meeks: A LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice Comparison

Posted Apr 26, 2012 20:08 UTC (Thu) by gioele (subscriber, #61675) [Link] (3 responses)

If this could be changed to top-5 of the first page it would go a long way towards solving this problem.

For some reason go-oo.org is on the first page of results for "openoffice". Couldn't that become an HTTP 301 redirect to the new OpenOffice or host a big banner linked to LibreOffice above the fold?

Linking to LibreOffice

Posted Apr 30, 2012 23:41 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] (2 responses)

That "new OpenOffice" link in your comment is basically the right idea. If enough people put links to libreoffice.org on high-ranking sites, the problem will go away.

The go-oo site says, "Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice," so if they put in the appropriate HTTP Redirect that should help a lot, too.

Linking to LibreOffice

Posted May 1, 2012 16:10 UTC (Tue) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] (1 responses)

Actually, it would help a lot if the Go-OO site stays there and keeps linking to LibreOffice. A HTTP-redirect doesn't show up in search results...

Linking to LibreOffice

Posted May 1, 2012 18:55 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

But a properly set up redirect would pass all or most of the link juice flowing in to go-oo.