549453 - New post "Select your web browser(s) screen is not a virus"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites Graveyard :: opentochoice.org, defect, P2)

Description

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

I think it would be a good idea that when users google about this new strange screen that appears on their computers that maybe it's a virus, the first result should be a post at opentochoice.org site explaining about Browser Choice.

Since we have a great pagerank at Mozilla sites, it shouldn't be difficult to reach top results.

My ideas:

* Post title should include keywords: select browser screen virus
* Post first paragraph should use keywords and explain what this screen is.
* The string "Select your web browser(s)" should match the MS translation at browserchoice.eu
* The post shouldn't be too long (max 3 paragraphs): 1 what the screen is 2 why it's important 3 Why we recommend Firefox
* We should offer links with more information at the bottom of the post

My draft:

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Select your web browser(s) screen is not a virus
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If your computer shows you a screen asking to select your browser, you should know that this is not a virus, it's a screen that Microsoft have to show to Windows users due a European Commision decision.

The browser is the application that let you surf the web, Internet Explorer by default in Windows, but it's important to know that there are more options that could improve the way you interact with the web.

Mozilla has build Firefox with excellent security, advanced features and amazing customization options, Firefox is the best browser around — and it's free! For these reasons Firefox is our recommendation.

[http://browserchoice.mozilla.com/ Why should I choose Firefox?]
[http://opentochoice.org/2010/02/web-browser-choice-matters/ Why web browser choice matters?]


(Maybe there are better words in English for this post, but you can see my point)

Comment 1

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

If there is any SEO expert around, this post needs that magic to be in the first search results at search engines.

Comment 2

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

I've been talking with a SEO and he suggests me to remove "Select your" from the title to increase the keywords importance, so the title would be:

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Web browser(s) screen is not a virus
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Comment 3

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Hi Jane,

Could we have your input here, please? Would be great to know what to do with this bug :)

Comment 4

[Jane Finette]

Hi there, in regard to the Open to Choice campaign - we are not going to be promoting Firefox during this period. Along with our mission, we felt it was much more important to promote the possibility of choice and that one can make an informed choice, rather than promoting Firefox alone. 

The Open to Choice site is already tackling those concerns, and we've addressed with a post about : Someone right now is wondering, “what’s this browser screen?” 
http://opentochoice.org/2010/03/someone-right-now-is-wondering-what%E2%80%99s-this-browser-screen/

In terms of buying keywords for "Browser Choice" this is something we might consider as the browser choice goes into the 2nd month. So SEM is definitely being considered. 

If Nukeador is okay to close this bug out - we have it on the SEM radar! :)

Comment 5

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

Ok, anyways we will try to promote this from the Spanish community in the meantime.