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: >> >> [CentOS-docs] Improving the PageRank of individual wiki pages >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2009-January/002137.html >> >> [CentOS-docs] 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]