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Even when your posts are minor, and strictly technical, like tips on doing this or that with Linux, they will be often searched for with English keywords and pu
by blfr 12y ago
Even when your posts are minor, and strictly technical, like tips on doing this or that with Linux, they will be often searched for with English keywords and publishing them in English increases your potential audience tenfold. From ~50M people in a large European country to 500M English speakers worldwide.
- icebraining 12y agoFrom ~50M people in a large European country You're forgetting to count everywhere outside of Europe that speaks an European language (besides English, of course). Portugal has only ~11M citizens, but Portuguese is spoken by 220M people around the world as their first language. Same with Spanish (470M) and French (74M).
- swah 12y agoI wouldn't dream of writing something for the larger audience in portuguese - although I could rehash ideas that are only found in english, in portuguese. That would be an easy way of getting karma points with my fellow citizens, and learn things better, which always happens when you need to explain something. I should start doing it.
- informatimago 12y agoYou are missing a quite significant '2' on the number of francophones, it's 274 millions, not 74M. http://www.francophonie.org/Denombrement-des-francophones.html http://www.francophonie.org/Denombrement-des-francophones.ht...
- icebraining 12y agoSorry, I took the number from Wikipedia. That said, does that include all French speakers? The number I mentioned was specifically about people for whom French was their first language.
- serve_yay 12y agoQuite the case with English as well...
- icebraining 12y agoYes, but that was mentioned.
- alkonaut 12y agoAnd don't forget that it's almost a winner takes all situation: English isn't my first language but I'd never search nor blog about technical things in a language other than English. I assume most searches from Germany on technical matters are made in English, so the audience for English texts is basically all the people that speak English at all, whereas the audence (search wise) for a German text is only those that speak German but no English. Such people exist of course, but in the technical field they are few.