Improve SEO of csound.com

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#1

[NOTE: Periods in urls below are unfortunately switched to slashes because new users cannot post more than 2 urls in a message.]

Searching for an opcode via Google often returns the desired documentation result, but on csounds/com (note the trailing s). Example:

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This has been a source of frustration because csounds/com has documentation that isn’t fully up-to-date (as of this writing, it’s reflective of Version 6.06, whereas csound/com is reflective of Version 6.15.0).

If SEO can’t be improved sufficiently to oust csounds/com from the top result, perhaps it’s worth asking its owner to implement HTTP 301 redirects. Having one canonical source of documentation would go a long way to streamlining things.

#2

Agreed. It’s extremely frustrating. A redirect would be great. I asked @Doctor_B about this on the Csound mailing list a while back. He said he would look into it but I don’t think he has the time. If someone with some web chops were to offer to help that would be great…

#3

When Rory asked, I essentially took down the home page and put up a big square (when you land) that takes you to csound.com.

  • that button has the title: Csound (and so, there should be no confusion)

After the end of the semester, I will look things over and do more to make it less confusing.

  • sorry about the ‘frustration’
#4

PS: The student who was managing my site for me graduated in 2015 and is doing great in LA now, but… things have not been attended to on the Web side - sorry about that.

#5

Thanks @Doctor_B. Just to clarify, I don’t find it frustrating that csounds.com is still active. It’s merely the fact that out of date documentation that is hosted there. Thanks for looking into it. :+1:

#6

I’ve web chops and can help out here if @Doctor_B isn’t opposed. It shouldn’t involve much more than editing the web server configuration file.

Here’s an article on how to go about it with nginx.

#7

Let’s try to redirect the man pages with your help or their help or some help and advice

Dr. Richard Boulanger
Professor
Electronic Production and Design
Berklee College of Music