drupal.com.au

There is a new version of this site in the pipeline but we cannot right now estimate when it will come live.

October, 2011

Meanwhile, we are offering this version of the site for promoting Drupal in Australia.

This site is now available to legitimate members of the Drupal Australian Community to promote Drupal in Australia.

Promotion may be for events, sites, businesses, projects, people, ideas, or other Drupal related phenomena.

The new version of the site will allow you to self-manage you promotion. For now, we offer to place your notice. We reserve the right to moderate submissions for spam or such, with or without notification.

For the time being, to arrange submission, please use our Contact Form

November, 2011

We have been experimenting with incorporating some feeds. Often the changes we make here are reflected onto Google within a few hours. The site has consistently come up number one for a search on drupal (within Australia), for many years.

I am always interested to see what Google does pick up to display as the description. It changes, and the pattern for that change is not always apparent.

So, for example this morning (20/11/11), some hours after I began to feature Drupal Downunder on the home page, Google began displaying as the site description "Drupal Downunder is an Australian-run, non-profit conference for the people who write, use and support the Drupal Content Management ...".

drupal.com.au | Promoting Drupal in Australia
www.drupal.com.au/
12 hours ago – Drupal Downunder is an Australian-run, non-profit conference for the people who write, use and support the Drupal Content Management ...

What wisdom did Google use to select that particular sentence fragment out of many other choices?

Here is how the home page looked at the time Google made that selection. There was no tricky underlying html coding to point google towards the text highlighted by the orange ellipse.

Home page on 20 November 2011: Google selection for the home page description is highlighted.