Last update October 16, 2006

Promoting D



Table of contents of this page
Promoting D   
Promoting D Online   
Users   
SearchEngines   
Content   
Original   
Up-to-date   
Hosting   
URLs   
Linking   
TABU   
Promoting D Offline   

Promoting D    

  1. The best promotion is usage.
  2. be honest: don't paint rosy pictures
  3. use proper grammar and spelling

Promoting D Online    

Users    

Internet users are interested in content that is
  • easy to find and bookmark,
  • relevant,
  • correct,
  • original and
  • up-to-date.

SearchEngines    

Search engines and their bots aren't mystical creatures, they are simply vision-impaired users that read a lot of pages. (Tools like Elinks provide an idea of what search engines see.)

Content    

Some ideas for D related contents:
  • process of learning D
  • D tutorial
  • experiences/evaluations - positive as well as negative
  • development reports (e.g. Ares, Bud, DGCC, ...)
  • documenting that software FooBar was written in or adapted for D
  • ...

Original    

A mirror of http://www.digitalmars.com/d isn't original, a translation is original. Searching for a keyword and getting swamped with mirrors of the same content with slightly different site layouts is very annoying.

Up-to-date    

Up-to-date doesn't require constant rewrites of your pages, instead simply:
  • attach a user visible date to the content
  • add a Corrigendum - again with a user visible date - if you are aware of any important fact changes

Hosting    

While hosting all your D pages on their own subdomain or in their own directory is nice, it isn't necessary.

URLs    

Consider you are searching for FooBar and you find two potential results/bookmarks: Which of those pages would you visit first?

Linking    

There are three categories of relevant sites If you write a D related page, please include at least one link to a relevant page of an authority hub (e.g. http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI ) and - only if relevant - some peer links. Publicity hubs are useful to promote new releases of your software in/for D.

TABU    

The following actions are going to decrease good-will and respect of potential visitors and are partly illegal - don't use them:
  • link spamming
  • log spamming (normally used to artificially increase inbound links via referrers in publicly visible logs)
  • keyword spamming
  • guest book spamming
  • forum spamming
  • spamming in general
  • mirroritis (senseless mirroring webpages)
  • blogeritis (bloging without original content)

Promoting D Offline    

  • write an article, book or essay detailing your experiences with D, it's development process, design and tools
  • use D for a school paper or science fair project
  • present D to your LUG or WUG
  • teach your neighbor's kid some basic programming concepts with D
  • ...

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