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--- seo [2010-07-22 05:37] – [More Information] olschimke
+++ seo [2022-10-17 17:36] (current) – space 78.40.177.25
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 DokuWiki tries to produce semantically correct and valid XHTML. This means the structure of a document is easy to analyze by an automatic spider.
-However how good the produced HTML is is highly dependent on a pages source. You should try to markup your document in a logical way. For example use headlines in descending order beginning with a level 1 headline. Use headlines for headers (not a bold paragraph), use lists for things that are a list and so forth. This is also important as DokuWiki might use the first level 1 headline as the page title (see next section).
+No matter how good the produced HTML is, SEO is very dependent on a page's source. You should try to markup your document in a logical way. For example use headlines in descending order beginning with a level 1 headline. Use headlines for headers (not a bold paragraph), use lists for things that are a list and so forth. This is also important as DokuWiki might use the first level 1 headline as the page title (see next section).
 ===== Meta Headers =====
-DokuWiki creates all relevant headers to identify the page content (doctype, encoding, language). Other headers, such as keywords and description can be created using the [[plugin:keywords]] and [[plugin:description]] plugins. The keywords header does not have a direct effect on search engine ranking:
+DokuWiki creates all relevant headers to identify the page content (doctype, encoding, language). Other headers and metadata, such as keywords, [[http://ogp.me/|OpenGraph]], [[http://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards|Twitter cards]] and description can be created using the [[plugin:keywords]], [[plugin:socialcards]] and [[plugin:description]] plugins. The keywords header does not have a direct effect on search engine ranking:
 > You're right in that we generally ignore the contents of the "keywords" meta tag. As with other possible meta tags, feel free to place it on your pages if you can use it for other purposes - it won't count against you.
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 Also, including keywords into the page has no negative effect and might be of advantage when using other tools and services (for example social bookmarking). In some cases, these services use the keywords from the meta header to create bookmarks and provide other services. Keywords can be manually defined per page using the [[plugin:keywords]] plugin.
-By default DokuWiki uses the [[:pagename]] in the //title// element. You may want to use the first level 1 header instead by enabling the [[config:useheading]] option. This has the advantage that your title (which is displayed in the SERPs) becomes more descriptive and you have a better influence about the keywords in the title. Also it allows you to have different keywords in the URL (which is influenced by the [[:pagename]]) and the title; both are an important factor in [[http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo|onpage-SEO]].
+By default DokuWiki uses the [[:pagename]] in the //title// element. You may want to use the first level 1 header instead by enabling the [[config:useheading]] option (you can also [[tips:underscores|remove underscores in different way]]). This has the advantage that your title (which is displayed in the SERPs) becomes more descriptive and you have a better influence about the keywords in the title. Also it allows you to have different keywords in the URL (which is influenced by the [[:pagename]]) and the title; both are an important factor in [[http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo|onpage-SEO]].
 From a SEO perspective, you should keep the name of the Wiki short (in the case of this wiki: [DokuWiki]) as the title is repeated in the page title on all pages. That way, your title is focused on the page keywords in the beginning of the title (here: "__seo__ [DokuWiki]"), indicating to the search engine the actual content of the page.
 ===== Duplicate Content =====
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 DokuWiki tries to [[:antispam|fight wiki spam]] by several ways. One of them is called [[config:indexdelay|delayed indexing]] and directly influences how search engines spider your page. When enabled it will set the //robots// meta header accordingly to the age of a page. Only pages which were not edited for a certain time (default: 5 days) will be allowed for spidering. The idea is that the community will have removed any spam in this time. This means only a page which is considered as good by the wiki users will be added by search engines. If you have a quick community (eg. at this wiki spam usually never lasts longer than a day) or have a closed user group you may want to lower the [[config:indexdelay]] option or even set it to 0 for disabling delayed indexing.
 ===== URLs =====
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 ===== More Information =====
-  * [[http://www.seomoz.org|SEOmoz]] provides [[http://www.seomoz.org/articles|SEO related articles and information]]
-  * The [[http://en.seowiki.info|SEO Wiki]] provides a [[http://en.seowiki.info/best_practices/seo_optimized_dokuwiki|description for a SEO optimized DokuWiki installation]] :!:
   * A [[http://www.abcseo.com/blog/dokuwiki-vs-pmwiki|comparison of DokuWiki and PmWiki]] on SEO capabilities (with DokuWiki being the winner)
+  * The SEO Wiki provides a [[http://en.seowiki.info/best_practices/seo_optimized_dokuwiki|description for a SEO optimized DokuWiki installation]]
+  * [[plugins?plugintag=seo#extension__table|Plugins tagged with seo]]