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Since my last post on this, I have made a few tweaks to GothamSchools.org to try and further improve its rankings on Google:

• I changed the wording on the About page to use “NYC schools” instead of “the nation’s largest school district”
• I similarly changed the wording of the welcome message on the home page
• I added Description and Keywords meta tags to the home page and am generating them on all single-post pages with the help of the All in One SEO Pack plugin

Today, this is how GothamSchools is ranking on Google:

• nyc schools (26th, up from 37th)
• schools in nyc (18th, up from 32nd)
• nyc public schools (17th, up from 33rd)
• new york schools (> 50)
• school nyc (> 50)
• nyc education (> 50)
• new york city schools (> 50)

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Last year a few of us here at TOPP built BlockPartyNYC.  This project was done for Transportation Alternatives, mainly to promote their party sponsorship program.  A sponsored block party received consulting on solutions to community problems like traffic, speeding, and noise and air pollution.

For this year of block parties in NYC, we have plans to make BlockPartyNYC the main hub for all 3000 NYC parties.  We plan on receiving data feeds from Community Boards as they approve block parties and, in turn, hosting relevant parties on Community Board sites.  We plan on having more advanced mapping, facebook integration, and other features.

See the full specification.  If anyone has comments on the proposed ways of tackling the new site, please get in touch.