Improving the website and forums

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On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 15:45 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Something that is not helping us with Google is the prefix "www.centos.org - "
> to every page of the website (including the forums).
> 
> It is annoying in the sense that it pushes the important keywords to the 
> end of the title and sometimes out of view of regular users (yes, Google 
> search resuls are trimmed).
> 
> As an example, seaching for "wireless site:www.centos.org" results in 
> titles that are missing all the important items:
> 
> www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Wireless ...
> 14.7. Establishing a Wireless Connection
> www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Intel ...
> www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Hardware Support - Hawking ...
> www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - Intel ...
> www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - CentOS 5 ...
> Hardware and Network Protection
> www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Networking Support - try to ...
> Creating a Wireless Connection
> www.centos.org - Forums - CentOS 5 - Hardware Support - Intel ...
> 
> This is awful, how would anyone find which of those forum articles matches 
> what they're looking for ?
> 
> My advise:
> 
>   - Get rid of the "www.centos.org -" prefix for all pages
> 
>   - Get rid of the "Forums -" prefix for the forums
> 
>   - Get rid of the "Networking Support" prefix for the forums
> 
>   - Move the "CentOS 5 -" to the end of the title (or get rid of it too)
> 
> Not sure if it is possible from any configuration, else we should hack the 
> responsible code to make it disappear. Can we put this on a TODO list ?

Hey Dag, does the Wiki even have a Site Map? If not that can greatly
help with the google searches (has to be submitted to Google). Also each
page upon creation needs a way to Inherit The Current Title and the Meta
Content section of the page code so it does not inherit from the Base
Code of MoinMoin.

JohnStanley




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