MediaWiki training course Search engine optimisation
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Goals of the training
- Knowing best pratices to improve search engine position
- Knowing forbiden things by search engines and avoid it
Topics covered by this MediaWiki training course
- Google advices
- Improve its wiki structure in a SEO way
- Using Semantic MediaWiki to automaitcally improve the structure
- Using Google and other SEO tools
Introduction
- Google advices
- Choosing a good page's name : impact on url and title and h1 html tags
- Displaying a h1 and/or title tags different from url
- Displaying a unique description for each page
- Editing alternative text for pictures
- Allow only few external websites to be followed by search engine bots
Improving its wiki structure
- Helping pages moves with redirects
- Unindexing useless pages (page by page or by namespace)
- Configuring article path
Automate SEO with Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)
- Rewriting title and h1 tags with semantic values
- fill in the field "alt" of pictures