PmWiki | Cookbook / SEO

Summary: A set of best practices to Search Engine Optimization

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Prerequisites: pmwiki-2.0.0

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Categories: Administration, Links, Layout, CMS

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How can I optimize my content for findability?

Description

A set of best practices to Search Engine Optimization

Wherever possible use links in the form of
[[PmWiki/RoadMap|+]]
RoadMap
to use the same keywords contained in the page title for the link text
On every important page use the (:keywords:) and (:description:) directives, which is used by the search engines to display a preview of the text on every page
Name new pages with the keywords from their title in mind, e.g. instead of a generic file name "Page-1" use "Words-from-the-page-title". Be careful to use "-" dashes instead of spaces for better readability for both robots and people
Keep the titled links even in pagelists:

!!!fmt=#titled
(:if false:)
[[#titled]]
(:if ! equal {=$Group} {<$Group}:)
:[[{=$Group}/]] /:
(:if:)
::[[{=$Group}/{=$Name}|{=$Titlespaced}]]:
[[#titled]]
(:ifend:)

fmt=#titled

{=Group}? /

{=Name}?

Change also the default title structure in the template to have the page title before the wiki title:

<title>{$Group} / {$Title} $ActionTitle | $WikiTitle</title>

<title>Cookbook / SEO $ActionTitle | $WikiTitle</title>

Use CleanUrls and GetRidOfMain
Consider diverting robot traffic
Insert Images with alternative text:

Attach:pmwiki-32.gif"My image"

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would anyone please post an example for this point? Where do i have to make the changes?

<title>{$Group} / {$Title} $ActionTitle | $WikiTitle</title>