Promoting D projects (or internet marketing 101)

[Walter Bright]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> 1) Make a web page for it. A newsgroup posting here in 
>> digitalmars.D.announce is great for announcing the existence of the 
>> project, but then it scrolls away and gets forgotten. You need a web 
>> page for it to get it noticed in the future. Use dsource.org if you 
>> don't have your own, or the D wiki, etc.
> 
> If the links to the newsgroup archive was working, then every posting
> would be turned into a web page automagically... Maybe there is a way
> to use URL rewriting in order not just kill all of those old D links ?
> (I mean the ones with "http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnext?")
> 
> I don't think a web page is a bad idea, but Google finds lots of stuff.

The D news archives already turn everything into a web page, and it does 
url translation. But a real web page is going to do a lot better, not 
just a discussion turned into a web page.