[Businessmtg] next agenda item

[Iphigenia Yiacas]

Hi,
whenever I do a general search for alanon email or digital meetings, all
search results are for the alanon.org site. that may be by design, but is
there any way to use keywords to increase our chances of coming up
somewhere on the initial results page?

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 12:07 PM Lynne <lynne at asp-afg.org> wrote:

>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> That closes our discussion of the alt-GR and alt-CMA positions. Thank
> you all for your thoughts. It seems there is support for the creation of
> an alt-GR position, but we need further discussion to iron out the
> details. We will bring this back to the BM in July.
>
> Now we move to the next item on our agenda: Discussion of the reduction
> of web traffic to ASP and the affects on our membership.
>
> As you will have noticed from my List Administrator report and
> Jennifer's Greeter Chair report, we have significantly slowed the number
> of new members joining ASP. This abrupt decline started in the fall of
> 2022. We believe this coincided with a WSO website change. Prior to
> then, if you searched for Al anon electronic meeting, ASP was in some of
> the top results. Also, on the WSO website, if you used their electronic
> meeting search, ASP was also one of the top listed as it was
> alphabetical and "A Serenity Place" was right up at the top. However,
> they redesigned their search feature to include all zoom and other
> platform meetings and now when you search for an electronic meeting,
> they show the next meeting that happens in time. So if you search on a
> Wednesday at 4pm, they will show you meetings that start at 5pm that day
> and then onwards. Which means that all 24/7 meetings are harder to find.
> You have to navigate to the search pane and click on 24/7 meetings. This
> change in their website has also affected where ASP is in google search
> results as all of the top results for electronic Al anon are now WSO
> sites (and I think one is OLA-IS, which does list ASP).
>
> The reason this matters is that we are now about 240 members. But with a
> slow trickle of newcomers and a slightly faster trickle of people
> leaving ASP, we are not on a sustainable trajectory. So while the
> recovery meeting might not be affected now, it likely will be affected
> in the future, unless we can figure out how to reverse the decline in
> new members.
>
> What we would really like are suggestions on how we might go about this
> or any thoughts about the issue we are facing. Some thoughts from the SC
> are:
>
> 1. to try and optimize our search engine results so that we can get ASP
> higher in google listing.
>
> 2. to redesign the public site to be more user friendly and inviting
> (although this doesn't help if we don't get eyeballs on the sight).
>
> I am probably forgetting some others (Steve, Anne, Jennifer, please help
> fill in anything I missed).
>
> We will be discussing this for the rest of the BM, until April 30th.
> FYI, Linda had requested the agenda item regarding archives, but since
> she sadly couldn't join this BM, that topic will not be discussed this
> meeting.
>
> Hugs,
>
> Lynne
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