Re^2: RFC: How to Write a Great Thread

No. Don't write for search engines, write for the other readers. It's the tools that should help us, not us that should help the tools. (And search engines improve over time - the titles don't).

That said, putting perl in the title of a perlmonks thread is redundant anyway - both from a search engine perspective and from the reader's perspective. SoPW posts are perl centric by default.

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Re^3: RFC: How to Write a Great Thread by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2009 at 11:15 UTC
*putting perl in the title of a perlmonks thread is redundant anyway* Not when it comes to searching google. If I google search for "great threads", I get pthreads, win32 threads, PhP crap, even clothing ads. But, if I just add "perl great threads", the results are narrowed quite a bit. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness	[reply]
Re^4: RFC: How to Write a Great Thread by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2009 at 12:07 UTC
Exactly. You search for perl great thread and the first hit is RFC: How to Write a Great Thread - even though it has no `perl` in the title. Which demonstrates my point that if you create a thread, it's redundant to put the perl into the title.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: RFC: How to Write a Great Thread by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2009 at 15:53 UTC
Yeah, six of one have dozen of another..... you search the low road and I'll search the high road...:-) I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness	[reply]