[Bf-docboard] Search Engine Optimization: "Experts" Team + Basic todos

[trouble daemon]

Hey,

Regarding the 301 redirects, I found some stuff that seems to suggest
that 301's will be good for redirecting:

http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/301-google-keep-rankings/
"It took about 2 days to actually see the old site disappear in Google
and for the redirect to take effect."

I am guessing that the 2 days is to make sure it wasn't an accidental 301.


Dan

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:10 AM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that there is quite some interest in SEO and indeed I had
> planned to do that after 2.5 -> 2.6 + AutoReference, in order to work on
> a more stable wiki.
>
> I'd like to start this thread to see what comes out :)
>
>
> SEO "Experts" Team
> ======================================================================
>
> If there are some volunteers to start a discussion that wold be useful :)
>
> Though, I would kindly ask interested people to:
>
> * Have some actual experience in SEO!
>  Let's not just talk on common sense please, or we just run in circles,
> we might even ruin the current ranking by making trial-and-error too much.
>
> * Avoid to write SEO books in mail!!
>  The "wall-o-text", as Dan called it :), will just give very poor
> chances to you mail to be actually read, and answered.
>  Rather:
>  * be short and schematic
>  * link to useful resources here
>  * even better, prepare some good docs in your user pages in wiki
>
>
>
> SEO Basic todos
> ======================================================================
>
> These are some basic todo that we can do without being SEO gurus :)
>
> Making a sitemap.php
> -----------------------------------------
>
> We need to have a sitemap.php
>
> There is a maintenance script in mediawiki that does the sitemap, I'll
> run it on the stable structure, after 2.5 -> 2.6 next week or so.
>
>
> Keywords
> -----------------------------------------
>
> How to find the correct keywords for each manual page?
> These can be applied later using an extension
> This can be done manually or with some tool
> I have some ideas how to do this, but would be nice to discuss it.
>
> Who wants to give it a try?
>
>
> H1 vs H2
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Check that all manual pages start with a "= foo =" (these become <h1> in
> the html page) instead of a "== foo ==" (these become <h2> in the html
> page), because <h1> has greater importance than <h2> for a search engine.
>
> We need to find the pages that start with a == foo == and change that
> into a = foo =, also scaling up all === bar === to == bar==, ==== qoo
> ==== to === qoo === etc.
>
> Who wants to work on this?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Regards,
> Luca
>
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