#6144 - Re-brand Composr CMS and several of its sub-systems
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By PDStig
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| Identifier | #6144 |
|---|---|
| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Re-brand Composr CMS and several of its sub-systems |
| Status | Open |
| Tags |
Risk: Major rearchitecting (custom) Roadmap: Over the horizon (custom) |
| Handling member | Deleted |
| Addon | General / Uncategorised |
| Description | The name "Composr" is not leading us much market traffic on search engines. Additionally, it is too close to the name "Composer" which is a popular PHP repository.
As such, we need a different name for the CMS. It was proposed we re-brand back to ocPortal. This is a good potential because there are no companies or software to my knowledge with a similar name. Furthermore, SEO still has ocPortal still pretty far up in ranks from sites that still list us as ocPortal. Additionally, the following must be re-named as well to improve our chances of coming up in search engines: - Comcode (there is a company and site by this name) - Tempcode (this is an online code editor) - Selectcode (too similar to SelectCoder) - Filtercode (too similar to Moodle's FilterCodes module) - Conversr (this is a name of a software company) - Anything else we find which is "unique" to Composr but actually exists out in the wild already Additionally, once we re-brand, we should purchase domain names of the same names and have them re-direct to the homesite. |
| Steps to reproduce | |
| Additional information | This is a v12 project |
| Funded? | No |
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ocPortal is not getting better results than Composr when comparing the two strictly; Composr obviously gets more results since that's the active name for the CMS. But ocPortal still shows up since it's the old name, and some sites still have not updated our name.
What I mean is that, if I do a search of Composr and compare the placement of Composr CMS relative to other things, and do the same for searching ocPortal and comparing the actual ocPortal software relative to other things, ocPortal places further up relative to other "ocPortal" results than Composr does relative to other "Composr" results. This indicates to me ocPortal is a more organic name than Composr.
Chris dislikes going back to ocPortal and I think if I recall is reluctant about changing the name. That's fine; we don't have to use ocPortal. But I also don't think we should use Composr.
Majority seems to suggest a name change... had multiple members in the community express the desire (including myself) and people from the outside. So a vote will probably be conducted on this at some point in the distant future. Again, this is a v12 consideration. v11 is too far into development for us to make any name changes now.
Their reasoning is because the term 'Harpsichord' is rarely used and therefore would be good for SEO. I'm not so sure, while they have a point with SEO, I fear such a name will make people think this is a music-oriented CMS when it's not (although that doesn't mean you can't build a music site with it).