At 13:45 22/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
People on the German wikipedia noticed that a mirror
site of the German
wikipedia (wikipedia.t-st.de)
17 links
has higher Google ratings than the "real"
one, which was attributed to
their use of <meta keywords=""> tags. (Supposedly, Google doesn't
care
about meta tags, but what do I know?)
10500 links
I vaguely remember that (at least in Phase II) there
were meta-keywords,
generated from the title of the article and all wiki-links. Also, it had a
meta "summary" tag from what the software thought was the first paragraph
of the article.
Could we turn that on again? Might cost some bandwidth, but if it really
gets us higher ratings, we should do this. Maybe for anonymous views only,
since logged-in users probably don't care for meta tags...
Magnus
Although google rating is meant to be link based it may be taking the link
qty to be spamming and demoting the main wiki see spider food
www.spider-food.net. I know this happens with other search engines.
Dave Caroline
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