On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Ned Slider wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: >> >>> Forum moderators would be able to provide more feedback here : how >>> relevant and accurate are most topic's for threads ? If they are >>> bang-on, perhaps it might be a good idea to replace the entire title of >>> the page with just the title of the post, drop everything else. <opinion >>> - subject to discussion>. >> >> Just my humble opinion (not quite as a forum moderator) ... I agree >> that it is not necessary to show the forum topics. Seeing "General >> Support", for example, does not add anything useful. Most people seem >> to put a short summary of the problem/question when they post. So the >> title of the post should be good as such when getting indexed. > > Agreed. The thread title should (hopefully) contain the keywords so > that's what should be returned by a search. > > Personally, I'd prefer to see the title of the thread/post followed by > the source returned for a search. So when googling "best Linux" the > searcher may get the following results: > > Is it true that CentOS is the best Linux ever? - CentOS forums > Is it true that CentOS is the best Linux ever? - CentOS Wiki > Is it true that CentOS is the best Linux ever? - CentOS Mailing List > > etc > > Now, if we could just do something about those URGENT - PLEASE HELP!!! > threads for which google returns 474,000 hits (not all of which are on > centos!) While I am mostly for removing as much as possible from the page title except the subject. I think there is a lot of value to still keep the CentOS-4, CentOS-5 identifier. Especially because people are not repeating that information since it is part of the forum-name/group already. I realize that this identifier is part of the forum name and therefor hard to put in the title though. I guess since it is part of the content it may not be that important in search results. But it would have been nice... -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
