On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 15:43 +1100, Helen wrote:
So does this mean we -cannot- just add the meta data to the page? Normally you just add title, meta keywords and description to the header in a couple of simple lines of code.
- we need to use a special extension to accomplish that?
(At some point I guess I'll have to learn Wiki, but right now I'm learning a lot of things ... so.... my apologies for my ignorance.)
Then of course we have to consider whether we wish to embrace FaceBook and employ open graph protocol. Theres a mediawiki extension for that too
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FBConnect We can testdrive its features at http://testpedia.us/index.php?title=Facebook
It's also worth bearing in mind that meta data is itself only a factor - the most critical thing is a good quality content-bearing page, incorporating key phrases in natural English. Good incoming links matter too.
cheers
Helen
2) bring more traffic, and generate interest in openSUSE by optimizing for non-SUSE-specific topics?
Wiki software that we use (MediaWiki) has at least one extension that deals with this, but I can't say without reading how it works.
This links is sitting in my bookmarks for a while: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Advanced_Meta
It claims that "Meta settings can be edited for individual pages, or entire namespaces can be denied from indexing by robots."
Looking for other extensions for meta tags manipulation: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Description http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Description2 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_HTML_Meta_and_Title http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Metas http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MetaDescriptionTag
Similar is: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenGraphMeta
But, I have no time right now to look at details.
(I'm answering here because SEO is more marketing then anything else.)
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