BoyWiki:Agora/3 April 2016

BoyWiki doesn't seem to be being read very much.

Why do you think that is? Do you think BW needs some kind of publicity? User4 (talk) 18:37, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

What makes you think we don't get that many hits? --Etenne 18:55, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I don't know how many total "hits" the site gets, or how many older articles/news articles are being accessed. So, uh, perhaps I should be more specific. Newer articles don't seem to be being read very much, if at all. Maybe people cannot find new articles? User4 (talk) 20:14, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

The only advice on that I can give is that it maybe a naming issue on particular entries. Names that are too specific or uncommon are unlikely to be picked up by people doing searches. As to your question about "Do you think BW needs some kind of publicity?" I spend at least 50 percent of my time on-line doing just that and working on getting the word out. --Etenne 17:41, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Hmm...

"Names that are too specific or uncommon are unlikely to be picked up by people doing searches"

...well, the articles which are books titles are unique, as there is only one book by that title and author, and I cannot change the titles to make the books show up better in searches, can I? User4 (talk) 17:07, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

The other option is internal advertising through internal linking as well as on BoyWiki's main page and the respective portals, however the entries need to be complete i.e. not fledglings and have a presentation that is clean to meet the criteria for inclusions on those pages. --Etenne 17:19, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Do you really think that it's a good idea to depend on people taking the initiative to do their own searches to try to find what is on BW? It seems to me that there should be a way to let people know what materials are here, and let them know when new materials are added to BW, don't you think? User4 (talk) 18:34, 5 April 2016 (UTC)