I have heard this a few times, most recently yesterday... People go to Google (or other search engine) and search for "Seattle Drupal meetup" (without the quotes) -- or they could be searching for London, Helsinki, or whatever. Although there is a local Drupal group with regular meetings, it doesn't come up on the first page of search results.

In the case of Seattle, if you search for "Seattle Drupal group", "Seattle Drupal meet-up", or "Seattle Drupal meeting", groups.drupal.org/seattle comes up as the first or second result. But not when you do "Seattle Drupal meetup".

So my suggestion is that the word "meetup" be incorporated into the site somewhere. I will also talk to the owner of our Seattle group and see if we can get it into our group description, which will take care of our specific case, but it might be useful to have this happen automatically on g.d.o.

Just a thought... :)

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I updated some of the text to hopefully be more accurate about what people are searching for, though now that I look at this graph I'm not so sure that it's as valuable as your experience suggests.

I've also posted over at http://groups.drupal.org/node/77268 to get some more ideas.

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Cool! I did not know about Google trends, and I agree, Google definitely reports many fewer people searching for "meetup". Of course, maybe those ones are the same people who would give up after one search and think there wasn't a local Drupal group? :)

Thanks...

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Status: Active » Fixed

Well, there were no new ideas from the SEO group. I've gone around and tweaked a few of the page titles and introduction text to make it better for first time visitors and more keyword rich.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.