I would be interested in working on this for a DVC bounty, but my suggestions are a big change to the project and we'd need some consensus.
I'm proposing a dismantling of Devtome and a re-packaging of its content onto separate websites. These will be more reader friendly, more search engine friendly and more advertiser friendly.
That's the strength of Devtome, the content, and the 'packaging' of that content is very important.
I can do this work in two stages:
Stage 1: Planning
To start I would decide how Devtomes content would be best divided up to be commercially viable on a blog network. At a quick glance I can see the e-currency section with some articles from the Computing section would work well together on a single website. Also the health section looks strong enough to have its own website. Each individual website will need to have enough content to be viable, so the content in some isolated and thinly populated categories may not be able to be used at first. Once I've divided it all up and done some keyword research for search terms we should aim to rank for and found some good domain names to use I can proceed to the next stage, which is:
Stage 2: Execution
Register the domain names, install wordpress on them. I would need help making the designs look snazzy as I am not a web designer, but I can find decent free wordpress themes to get started with. I would then go about removing the articles from Devtome and publish them onto the new Devcoin powered blog network. Google likes it when a site has new content added regularly, so re-publishing the articles approximately one per day over the course of a few months would be best. (Devtome of course does have regular content added, which is great, but its lack of topic-focus makes it hard for the search engines to categorise). New content would still be needed all the time as per usual to keep growing the blogs. I would also be able to provide the lists of keywords we would be aiming to rank for in the search engines to Devtomers and explain in detail how to go about link building to build highly targeted organic search traffic. Once traffic builds, I can put up Google Adsense (have done this lots of times before) and we can use the revenue to do whatever we think we should. I'd recommend waiting 2-3 months before putting up any ads to let traffic build first.
If people want me to go ahead with this, please voice your opinions. It is a big project and I am willing to do it for a bounty.
I've particularly thought the avenue of a portal focusing on cryptos would work. There's a lot of info on devtome - in the e-currency, cryptos, business and companies categories - that would suit a single crypto site, as well as more personal articles written on various experiences of learning/buying/selling/trading/blogging. These could offer a regular supplement to the more info/data orientated posts. With the incentive of targeted traffic and interest (and perhaps an adjusted compensation in a crypto - devcoin) that could be a good catalyst to capture greater interest as a differentiation vs other blogs in an area (e-money in general) that's only just really beginning and in my opinion will prove to have significant overlap with just about every aspect of life whether we like it or not.
The particular focus of a devcoin orientated site, with no particular bias towards including or precluding information/promotion of any particular currency or concept may also prove interesting to the competition (not sure whether that will longer-term prove to be a restriction or limiter of success - people like to stick to their biases). Such an approach broadened out would also move further along the road of building self-sustaining revenue streams, freeing up resources to plough back into further endeavours.
As you infer, an information repository has been slowly but surely building - I agree it's time to optimise it and garner greater recognition of the possibilities. I'm not sure all/every topic would work in that format, but it does offer the significant advantage of more likely promoting sub-teams of people with similar interests taking a greater focus on marketing/writing/advertising/vetting. There's more room for trial and error - what works/doesn't can be mutually discussed/utilised with the underlying driver of mutual success as devcoin projects ensuring better finessing.
I was thinking basically the same thing after I wrote this post. Blogs might not work for all the categories, and plus if I did this just for cypto-computing-interenet articles that would be a good trial of this idea.
