This post was originally published as “Why I don’t Promote JS“, a misinformed ranting diatribe on the merits of Mozilla’s SEO. After a few corrections from Mozilla and PromoteJS in the comments below, I’ve decided to revise it.
I’ve had mixed feelings about last year’s effort by PromoteJS to push MDC to become the top result in Google for JavaScript reference. While I like the idea of having a really good reference online, which is easily searchable, there were some issues with the effort.
- It is tied to Mozilla. I thought a better effort might be an independent site.
- The SEO effort seemed odd.
- While the articles are now the best available, there are still frustrations with using the site itself.
I’m going to hit each of these in turn, and because I don’t like reading heavy articles on the web, I’m going to try and do it all with bullet points. Continue reading →