mnishiguchi

mnishiguchi

Nerves Core Team

SEO of the Nerves project

Has anyone thought about renaming the name of the Nerves Project?

I really like Nerves and I want it to be more popular.
I think one issue is its name and SEO. The term nerve is so widely used for real nerves that our “Nerves” can never beat it in the search engines.

Ideally we want to see the project by searching with its name.

I hate to say but I think the project name needs some twist, like for example Raspberry Pi. Compare these:

A little twist makes a huge difference.

What do you all think?

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AndyL

AndyL

The terms “Nerves Elixir”, “Nerves Project”, “Nerves Framework” all show pretty good results.

fhunleth

fhunleth

Co-author of Nerves

@mnishiguchi Thanks for bringing up SEO and Nerves. I feel like most of what I’d say has been said on this thread already. I did want to thank you for your Nerves blog posts. I have to believe that they will help. Since you asked, I try to refer to Nerves as the “the Nerves Project” at the beginning and then just as Nerves when it’s unambiguous. I feel like the suggestion to add terms like “Elixir”, “embedded”, and “IoT” was good and I do that when searching for Nerves posts that I want to share.

l00ker

l00ker

I’ve been subscribed to the Raspberry Pi newsletter for years now, since buying my first Pi, an A+ I believe, years ago. I may have missed something as I don’t follow all of the magazines that have cropped up in that space, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything about Elixir or Nerves (other than in a few forum posts) on the Raspberry Pi website etc.

Since Nerves works great on the Pi, I think that if someone could manage to build a project or two, like maybe a sprinkler controller, a simple alarm system, or a remote MP3 music player (maybe toss a little love to the Phoenix Framework & The Membrane Framework) etc., that could highlight what Elixir and “the Nerves Project” are capable of on the Pi, Nerves, as well as, the whole Elixir ecosystem could possibly gain a lot of attention there. Especially if those projects managed to get posted on their blog and in the newsletter.

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jjcarstens

jjcarstens

Nerves Core Team

My 2¢ is that I’m more interested in community engagement than broad marketing reach. I have a total lack of knowledge around SEO, but my opinion there is that it seems like it may increase who may happen upon it, but not that they would be immediately able to engage with it having no knowledge prior. And I would rather the default of someone looking for “Nerves” to actually get the medical equivalent as there is probably a reason they are searching that.

That said, I believe word of mouth and experimental content (like blog posts) promote community engagement more, albeit slower.

I don’t think I’m entirely opposed to a rename should that be best for the community, but I would rank SEO as a much lower reason.

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