Manu Gupta <manugupt1@gmail.com> 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.
* 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?