On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Dag Wieers<dag at wieers.com> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, JohnS wrote: > >> >> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 21:59 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: >> <snips> >>> >>> We started more than one thread regarding this back in January: >>> >>> ? ? ?Improving the PageRank of individual wiki pages >>> ? ? ?http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2009-January/002137.html >>> >>> ? ? ?Improving the website and forums >>> ? ? ?http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2009-January/002138.html >>> >>> A lot of stuff has been suggested to improve individual results in Google. >>> Yet, little materialized after that discussion. Before having the >>> discussion again, maybe someone can summarize some of the stuff ? >>> >>> >>> PS There were also some other threads that I started with suggestions for >>> improving to contributing to the wiki. I guess posting the new-year's >>> weekend is not a good idea to get things going :) >> --- >> Prepend per Above link: >> Most of what was said was pointed out by me. Honestly there is no sense >> in discussing it until there is a final take on what is going to be used >> as a final Web App. >> >> What matters the most is the Web App being chosen or used. SEO starts at >> the base code level for that specific App. >> >> Lets think a sec. Can Moin do a 300 redirect? IE;301>/webapp/info ? That >> starts at the raw code level. > > John, > > I agree for the website. But for the wiki, we need some fixes too and > we're not going to replace the wiki by a 'Web App'. > > So whatever we can do to improve the pages (as stated in those threads) we > should do as soon as possible. > > I noticed a lot of other centos website are being created by people to > fill in the void there is because our wiki simply sucks from a Google > point of view: > > ? ? ? ?http://www.centoslinuxhcl.org/ > ? ? ? ?http://www.centoshowto.org/ > ? ? ? ?http://www.centoshelp.org/ > ? ? ? ?http://www.centosguides.com/ > > Try anything: > > ? ? ? ?centos wireless > ? ? ? ?centos hardware > ? ? ? ?centos laptop > ? ? ? ?centos x200s > > The last ones are really to cry for because lots of these results do have > a link to our wiki, but the wiki is simply missing from the first 100 > results... > > Even searching for: > > ? ? ? ?x200s site:wiki.centos.org > > results not in the page I was hoping for. As if the wiki (or at least > big parts of it) is simply ignored by Google. > > We have a robots.txt that has nothing really in it. From what I can find, > an empty robots.txt should have the same effect as no robots.txt, but ours > is not exactly empty in the true meaning of the word. So maybe we should > empty it, or simply remove it altogether ? > > PS The wiki does seem to be indexed, so I doubt it is the robots.txt > -- > -- ? dag wieers, ?dag at wieers.com, ?http://dag.wieers.com/ ? -- > [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs > Is there a sitemap for the wiki website? Maybe that would help. Also, as I sugested earlier, was the site(s) added through google webmaster tool?
