Is Code Review useful for external users?

If a user adds the right keywords - especially in the title - it would still be useful for external users. Say someone googles "PHP Doctrine bootstrap". Right now, they'll see a hit from codereview.se at #4, and stackoverflow at #6. They can jump to codereview to likely see an already completed example with added commentary, or they can jump to stackoverflow to see possible glitches they might have to overcome.

There is a problem in the google summary for the codereview hit - it's missing question content, so as of now the user will have to guess the content by just the title alone. And since there's likely going to be a tonne of "is my code good" posts, it won't be helpful.

So bottom line: the user will have to think about SEO when they choose their title.

I found this stack by way of Area 51 just a few days ago, but I imagine, as Jeff points out, that a lot of traffic will eventually be driven from Stack Overflow or other highly visible stacks.

I certainly hope CR sticks around, even if it’s only traffic comes from other stacks. As a “lone-coder”, I’ve often wondered if my code is “up to snuff”, or if I was missing some security hole, or if there’s a better way to design a certain class interface. I’ve never found anything like Code Review through Google, but I’m glad it’s available nonetheless.

Even if it survives only as an appendage of other stacks, is that such a bad thing? Not in my book.

On the other hand, it might help to blog about it. Coding Horror is a popular blog. Has Code Review been mentioned there? ;-)

We often end up writing a ton of code and if it works correctly then we leave it at that. It is hard to find someone who can review it with objectivity at workplace and otherwise also. StackOverflow drove me here and now I spend quality time learning here.Once the word is out that this is the best code review site ,we will have traffic coming here.I am not sure if we will get search engine re-directed traffic here.

Very good point, while being active on this site I've also constantly had this same concern at the back of my mind.

Furthermore, I experienced a lot of redundancy in my answers, having to refer to the same proper coding techniques over and over again.

It is pretty clear why this site is useful for CR-users: those who ask for code review may get some points regarding their code, reviewers can see ideas of other reviewers which also stimulates writing better code.

Maybe that is part of the underlying knowledge which is built? A collection of good coding practices. Perhaps it would be useful to structure those in some way so we can refer to a central location in our answers? A single point of reference with unambiguous information/naming.

Actually, Programmers.SE would be a better location for that. :O Discussion of proper coding practices should take place on Programmers.SE, but how to apply them to specific questions can be discussed here. Some cooperation would be necessary in order to achieve this.