Optimize Answers for high-quality SEO, focusing on page URLs, speed, and markup.
Code for America application Honolulu Answers, redeployed as Oakland Answers, could benefit greatly from optimization for search engine traffic.
To help popularize new Answers sites, we are looking for a top-to-bottom SEO review of Answers.
We are looking for updates to the Answers application HTML templates to ensure consistency with high-ranking search engine performance, with concrete advice for future forks and deployments of the app. A successful SEO update might include some or all of the following:
- Wording and language hints baked into the application.
- Updates to HTML layout if necessary.
- Navigation support for featured questions or highly-visited questions.
Code for America can put you in touch with the creators and original users of Honolulu Answers as well as Open Oakland who adapted the application for its second use.
Visit Honolulu Answers and Oakland Answers to get a feel for the application. Try to answer a few questions for your own city yourself. Clone and install the Answers Ruby on Rails application, paying special attention to the view templates under app/views. Collaborate with Code for America by way of issues or pull requests on the Github repository, and contact us directly via e-mail to chat.