Archive for May, 2009

Chat sessions with the candidates for the GA election tomorrow

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

As I am a candidate for the general assembly of the FSFE, I invite all members of the FSFE to join our chat session on tomorrow evening at 20:30 and ask Torsten, Michel, Björn and me some questions.

For more informations, on how to join the session, have a look at mk’s blog post.

Read you there.

Henner

pdfreaders.org hit the German media again!

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Hi there,

I have some good news from the pdfreaders.org front.

Hannes gave an interview to a guy from the dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) about alternatives to the Adobe Reader. The dpa is a news source for nearly all german newspapers.

The result is that we are mentioned on the following sites:

bild.de - Die besten PDF-Programme

spiegel.de - Es muss nicht immer Adobe sein
http://www.teltarif.de/pdf-reader-adobe-alternativen/news/34121.html?page=2

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/computer/105/467676/text/2/

http://www.manager-magazin.de/it/artikel/0,2828,623090-2,00.html

http://www.n24.de/news/newsitem_5031909.html

http://www.netzeitung.de/internet/computer/1348220.html

The bad news is that only one of these newspapers linked to pdfreaders.org or to the FSFE site.
As we contacted some of the authors, bild.de added a link to both of our sites. A big thanks for that!

HennR

Help us with our google ranking

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Hannes, the second coordinator of pdfreaders.org compared our google ranking with some keywords he search for. The results are quite good for the beginning:

  • “pdfreaders” -> 1st Result
  • pdfreader” -> 8th
  • “free software pdf” -> 9th
  • “pdf reader” -> 38th
  • “pdf viewer” -> not in the first 100
  • “free pdf reader” -> 17th
  • “download free pdf reader” -> 40th
  • “download pdf reader” -> not in the first 100
  • “open pdf file” -> not in the first 100

As you can see we are not found in the first 100 hits with the keywords “pdf viewer”, so if you want to help us you do have two opportunities:

1. Blog about pdfreaders.org and use the keywords that we need 😉
2. Write webmasters of big or small sites and please them to use our sexy buttons instead of the “Get Adobe Reader”-buttons.

Thanks for your help and happy hacking,

HennR