Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:15:05PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:55:57PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:39:47PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> >> >Well, Gary (Gary R. Van Sickle) is the maintainer of that page, so....
>> >>
>> >> Ack.  I missed that fact.
>> >>
>> >> Don't send Gary email about this!  I'm sure he doesn't need it.
>> >
>> >Ooooops! Too late! ;-) Only kiddin' I'm sure that's not a worry. Perhaps
>> >changing
>> >
>> >"Run this program any time you want to install a cygwin package."
>> >
>> >to
>> >
>> >"It is recommended that you use setup.exe whenever you want to install a
>> >cygwin package. If you install or update packages manually, you are doing so
>> >at your own risk."
>> >
>> >at the end of the third paragraph below "What's New and How Do I Get It?"...
>> 
>> I don't think people are actually reading that paragraph at all, though.  I
>> think that's part of the problem.
>
>As a preventative measure, how about adding some embedded tags into the
>cygwin.com home or install pages so that they'll have a higher hit-point
>ratio for various search combinations.  Something like adding:
>
><!--
>cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install
>how to install cygwin how to install cygwin how to install cygwin
>cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install
>how to install cygwin how to install cygwin how to install cygwin
>cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install cygwin install
>how to install cygwin how to install cygwin how to install cygwin
>etc...
>-->
>
>The next time the various web crawlers inspect the page they might give a
>larger weight to this page for the various word combinations.  Or have
>web crawlers changed such that this doesn't work anymore? 

I'll try that.  Thanks.

cgf

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