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Re: GitHub Learning Lab

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Post by daveFNbuck »

tobr wrote: post #9
tomovo wrote: post #2

Not trying to weaken the GitLab brand at all... /s

My brain read the title and URL as “GitLab”. This does not look good, GitHub. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusing_similarity

Yeah, I was a bit confused when I clicked the link and ended up on GitHub and not GitLab.

Re: GitHub Learning Lab

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Post by spectramax »

diminish wrote: post #19

A Very good SEO move, to stir some of the 'lab' traffic away from gitlab.

That's an interesting viewpoint. To be honest, I don't understand SEO and it is such a big buzz word. If I look up videos on YouTube about SEO, they appear as if they're selling me a pyramid scheme. Why is the SEO business appear to be so scammy? I am put off from just learning about it. Same thing with SEO books on Amazon.

Re: GitHub Learning Lab

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Post by straws »

I gotta say, the "installing" workflow is pretty opaque and confusing. Why do I need to both authorize GitHub _and_ install a GitHub app? If I elect to only authorize it for specific repos (instead of read/write access to all of my repos), why do I need to install it first for some empty project before GitHub can create the repo for the course I'm trying to access?

Re: GitHub Learning Lab

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Post by sv123 »

spectramax wrote: post #22
diminish wrote: post #19

A Very good SEO move, to stir some of the 'lab' traffic away from gitlab.

That's an interesting viewpoint. To be honest, I don't understand SEO and it is such a big buzz word. If I look up videos on YouTube about SEO, they appear as if they're selling me a pyramid scheme. Why is the SEO business appear to be so scammy? I am put off from just learning about it. Same thing with SEO books on Amazon.

All you need to know about SEO: Create good content that people want to link to, make sure you follow html best practices that have been around since the 90s.

Re: GitHub Learning Lab

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Post by skytreader »

spectramax wrote: post #22
diminish wrote: post #19

A Very good SEO move, to stir some of the 'lab' traffic away from gitlab.

That's an interesting viewpoint. To be honest, I don't understand SEO and it is such a big buzz word. If I look up videos on YouTube about SEO, they appear as if they're selling me a pyramid scheme. Why is the SEO business appear to be so scammy? I am put off from just learning about it. Same thing with SEO books on Amazon.

As someone who spent more or less a year doing "growth hacking", heck yeah SEO is one big hairball.

I understand the reason though. It's basically an arms race between the search engines (or just the Big G) and those who "game" the system, especially with ill intent in mind. At the surface, SEO is "easy": just build up links, links, and links. But when you're not hitting your projections, it gets difficult (at least for me, as a software engineer) to drill down on what part of your strategy is holding you back, isn't giving the intended ROI. A curious thing I learned during my time doing SEO is how there's an industry built on, basically, interpreting the whims of Google's algorithm, trying to shed light what part of your strategy can be improved. Might be common knowledge to others, but definitely not to me.

But I don't buy that this leeches SEO away from GitLab. AFAIK, URLs are no longer as weighty to the algorithms as they used to be. At most this would leech off on GitLab's brand; maybe some GitLab fans would think GitLab released something new and then they realize they gave their eyeballs to a _GitHub_ product. This could fool humans, but not the algorithms.

Re: GitHub Learning Lab

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Post by iamshs »

diminish wrote: post #19

A Very good SEO move, to stir some of the 'lab' traffic away from gitlab.

I doubt it will take away the pole position for anyone searching for Gitlab though. Right now for me, it is Gitlab main website, Twitter, Gitlab.com/Gitlab-com, Wiki etc.

Let's see where this link ends up after a month.

Re: GitHub Learning Lab

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Post by sytse »

portroyal wrote: post #7
grenoire wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Middle-school tier politics, I like that.

I think this rivalry should continue; playfully acknowledge what everyone observes to be true. Sir Tim said cool urls never die; GitLab, your turn! https://hub.gitlab.com -- make it happen! Edit: Your use-case; me. I migrated to your platform and, as an autodidact, would greatly appreciate a native resource of similar (IMproved) quality. Thank you.

Making the redirect seems like a fun small iteration. We're on it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/issues...
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