ENH: docs website discoverability about civis-r HOT 3 CLOSED

It looks like the page linked above redirects to a more general page now (not about SEO), but I did find this, which might be relevant: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/useful-resources.html#helping-people-find-your-site

They're very general-purpose suggestions though.

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I can confirm that at the time of this comment, searching "civis-r api client" and "civis api client r" do not show the doc website in the first page of google results.

Some options we could consider:

• index the page under the civisanalytics domain, which might be more trusted by google
• raise the visibility of the documentation website by linking to it in the DESCRIPTION (so that it appears on CRAN, which will likely always appear before our own website)
• sign up for google search console to determine what phrases our website comes up for (which is maybe not many, based on my preliminary searching)
• change the main page title from "Civis Data Science API Client" to "Civis R API Client", which may help it show up in R-specific searches. This also matches the format of the Python client title.

I pulled many of these suggestions from this thread: https://community.rstudio.com/t/pkgdown-site-seo/26706/2

Any thoughts @patr1ckm ? Updating DESCRIPTION and title are the easiest changes, and seem worth trying to me.

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Thanks so much for looking at this!

The query 'Civis Data Science API Client' immediately returned our docs. Changing the title to Civis R API Client should probably help.

I also think that a direct link in the package DESCRIPTION would make it more discoverable with low lift.

I think the other two options sound more involved.

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