Re: [opensuse-web] Improving SEO infrastructure for openSUSE

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Matthew Ehle

1 Dec 2010 1 Dec '10

20:43

There was another discussion a few months ago that I responded on, but I haven't heard much back. I can tell you what I have done for the wikis, and maybe someone who knows SEO can add some input. I have set up Google Webmaster Tools on www and all the wikisI have created a cron that updates all the sitemaps daily with new and updated content for the wikisThe only suggestion given by the webmaster tools console is to remove duplicate titles, of which there are quite a fewI did just notice that robots.txt is missing out of all the wikis, so I'm fixing that now. It shouldn't have affected anything too much. -Matt

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Manu Gupta 12/01/10 1:17 PM >>> Hi

I would like to know how can we improve our SEO infrastructure for openSUSE websites. Afaik we do not land up at good places while searching at google. One example would be my name manugupt1 My user page lands up at 5th position even when it is the most recently updated page. Also for a search Live USB openSUSE I pointed to a link for openSUSE 11.1 which is not a good indication clearly I would like to know how can we improve it and make ourselves on top of Google searches when it comes to searching :) Regards Manu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-web+help@opensuse.org

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Manu Gupta

2 Dec 2 Dec

06:27

New subject: [opensuse-web] Improving SEO infrastructure for openSUSE

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:43 -0700, Matthew Ehle wrote:

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There was another discussion a few months ago that I responded on, but I haven't heard much back. I can tell you what I have done for the wikis, and maybe someone who knows SEO can add some input. * I have set up Google Webmaster Tools on www and all the wikis

I think we can update on other search engines too like Yahoo, Bing etc

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* I have created a cron that updates all the sitemaps daily with new and updated content for the wikis * The only suggestion given by the webmaster tools console is to remove duplicate titles, of which there are quite a few * I did just notice that robots.txt is missing out of all the wikis, so I'm fixing that now. It shouldn't have affected anything too much.

One more thing have we considered meta tags too. Also if our planet and other rss feed may be submitted to web directories

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-Matt

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Manu Gupta 12/01/10 1:17 PM >>> Hi

I would like to know how can we improve our SEO infrastructure for openSUSE websites. Afaik we do not land up at good places while searching at google.

One example would be my name manugupt1

My user page lands up at 5th position even when it is the most recently updated page.

Also for a search Live USB openSUSE I pointed to a link for openSUSE 11.1 which is not a good indication clearly

I would like to know how can we improve it and make ourselves on top of Google searches when it comes to searching :)

Regards Manu

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Matthew Ehle

15:50

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Manu Gupta 12/1/2010 11:27 PM >>> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:43 -0700, Matthew Ehle wrote:

There was another discussion a few months ago that I responded on, but I haven't heard much back. I can tell you what I have done for the wikis, and maybe someone who knows SEO can add some input. * I have set up Google Webmaster Tools on www and all the wikis

I think we can update on other search engines too like Yahoo, Bing etc

Bing requires an MSN email address, and I already have way too many :D There is a line that one can give in robots.txt that would point any search engine to the sitemap. I'm working on adding that right now. It seems that this is about all I can actually do with a webmaster account. The rest is just looking at statistics.

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* I have created a cron that updates all the sitemaps daily with new and updated content for the wikis * The only suggestion given by the webmaster tools console is to remove duplicate titles, of which there are quite a few * I did just notice that robots.txt is missing out of all the wikis, so I'm fixing that now. It shouldn't have affected anything too much.

One more thing have we considered meta tags too. Also if our planet and other rss feed may be submitted to web directories Meta tags are a good idea. I know there is at least one Mediawiki extension that can help there. I claim ignorance on which meta tags to add to help with SEO however.

I'm not sure what you mean with the last sentence. Do you mean submitting sitemaps for our RSS aggregation?

Manu Gupta

15:54

New subject: [opensuse-web] Improving SEO infrastructure for openSUSE

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:50 -0700, Matthew Ehle wrote:

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Manu Gupta 12/1/2010 11:27 PM >>> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:43 -0700, Matthew Ehle wrote:

There was another discussion a few months ago that I responded on, but I haven't heard much back. I can tell you what I have done for the wikis, and maybe someone who knows SEO can add some input. * I have set up Google Webmaster Tools on www and all the wikis

I think we can update on other search engines too like Yahoo, Bing etc

Bing requires an MSN email address, and I already have way too many :D

There is a line that one can give in robots.txt that would point any search engine to the sitemap. I'm working on adding that right now. It seems that this is about all I can actually do with a webmaster account. The rest is just looking at statistics.

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* I have created a cron that updates all the sitemaps daily

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new and updated content for the wikis * The only suggestion given by the webmaster tools console is

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remove duplicate titles, of which there are quite a few * I did just notice that robots.txt is missing out of all the wikis, so I'm fixing that now. It shouldn't have affected anything too much.

One more thing have we considered meta tags too. Also if our planet and other rss feed may be submitted to web directories

Meta tags are a good idea. I know there is at least one Mediawiki extension that can help there. I claim ignorance on which meta tags to add to help with SEO however.

I'm not sure what you mean with the last sentence. Do you mean submitting sitemaps for our RSS aggregation? No Our planet feeds, news feeds etc at technorati and other blog submission sites

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Matthew Ehle

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Meta tags are a good idea. I know there is at least one Mediawiki extension that can help there. I claim ignorance on which meta tags to add to help with SEO however. Meta tags we should have a discussion on this but I would personally prefer openSUSE 11.3 as one of them so that search engines can focus more on our present distro however we can have a discussion about this over here

That sounds good. We'll probably want to use that MW extension then.

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I'm not sure what you mean with the last sentence. Do you mean submitting sitemaps for our RSS aggregation?

No Our planet feeds, news feeds etc at technorati and other blog submission sites

I don't have any control on planet.o.o, but I have noticed that it's not indexed too often. I forget who the admin is for that site. You did remind me that I still haven't done much for SEO on the blogging sites. I'll see if I can get some sitemaps going there.

Manu Gupta

3 Dec 3 Dec

13:05

New subject: [opensuse-web] Improving SEO infrastructure for openSUSE

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 09:05 -0700, Matthew Ehle wrote:

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Meta tags are a good idea. I know there is at least one Mediawiki extension that can help there. I claim ignorance on which meta tags to add to help with SEO however. Meta tags we should have a discussion on this but I would personally prefer openSUSE 11.3 as one of them so that search engines can focus more on our present distro however we can have a discussion about this over here

That sounds good. We'll probably want to use that MW extension then.

I have a request if I can be added to opensuse's google analytics account as a user, we can explore there and look for interesting keywords that might be able to help us as meta tags Yes the MW extensions sounds like a nice idea

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I'm not sure what you mean with the last sentence. Do you mean submitting sitemaps for our RSS aggregation?

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No Our planet feeds, news feeds etc at technorati and other blog submission sites

I don't have any control on planet.o.o, but I have noticed that it's not indexed too often. I forget who the admin is for that site. You did remind me that I still haven't done much for SEO on the blogging sites. I'll see if I can get some sitemaps going there.

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Matthew Ehle

16:13

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Manu Gupta 12/3/2010 6:05 AM >>> I have a request if I can be added to opensuse's google analytics account as a user, we can explore there and look for interesting keywords that might be able to help us as meta tags

I'll do you one better. I'll add you to the webmasters account so you can see the top keywords and search results listed there. You should see an email soon.

Manu Gupta

2 Dec 2 Dec

15:57

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Manu Gupta 12/1/2010 11:27 PM >>> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:43 -0700, Matthew Ehle wrote:

There was another discussion a few months ago that I responded on, but I haven't heard much back. I can tell you what I have done for the wikis, and maybe someone who knows SEO can add some input. * I have set up Google Webmaster Tools on www and all the wikis

I think we can update on other search engines too like Yahoo, Bing etc

Bing requires an MSN email address, and I already have way too many :D

There is a line that one can give in robots.txt that would point any search engine to the sitemap. I'm working on adding that right now. It seems that this is about all I can actually do with a webmaster account. The rest is just looking at statistics.

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* I have created a cron that updates all the sitemaps daily

with

...
new and updated content for the wikis * The only suggestion given by the webmaster tools console is

to

...
remove duplicate titles, of which there are quite a few * I did just notice that robots.txt is missing out of all the wikis, so I'm fixing that now. It shouldn't have affected anything too much.

One more thing have we considered meta tags too. Also if our planet and other rss feed may be submitted to web directories

Meta tags are a good idea. I know there is at least one Mediawiki extension that can help there. I claim ignorance on which meta tags to add to help with SEO however. Meta tags we should have a discussion on this but I would personally

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:50 -0700, Matthew Ehle wrote: prefer openSUSE 11.3 as one of them so that search engines can focus more on our present distro however we can have a discussion about this over here

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I'm not sure what you mean with the last sentence. Do you mean submitting sitemaps for our RSS aggregation?

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