This issue and others related to referencement (see SEO: search engine
optimizer) can be overcome through :
1)addition of a variable in the template, so that the DESCRIPTION meta
is different between the pages. For example, add the title at the
beginning of the description.
2)Without any description meta and only the KEYWORD meta... variables
can be adapted
To assess different sites type directly in google:
I'm using
lastest mediawiki 1.4.X,
Hint: MediaWiki 1.4 is nowhere near the latest release, which is
1.5.5. I'd imagine the problem still affects that however; and it
affects HEAD, given that that's what Commons runs. Seems to be a
Google oversight rather than our fault.
Rob Church
On 18/01/06, erchache2000 <erchache2000.enciclopedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Christof Damian escribió:
>
>>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Brianna Laugher wrote:
>>
>>
>>>A related problem is that Google does not index the commons. Well,
>>>more or less. It is basically impossible to find any commons content
>>>in there - as you normally can by going ' keyword
>>>site:commons.wikimedia.org '. Personally I find this rather
>>>unbelievable and appalling on Google's behalf. Does anyone else
>>>think we should, um, make them aware of this? pfctdayelise 13:26, 16
>>>January 2006 (UTC)
>>>
>>
>>It is rather annoying. I have a wiki wit a large amount of images too
>>and description on the "Image:" pages.
>>
>>I thought about hacking mediawiki so that it changes the Image:*.jpg
>>to something else, without having to change any wiki text.
>>
>>I don't think google will fix their bot soon, this has been broken for
>>ages.
>>
>>christof
>>
>>
>
>I'm using lastest mediawiki 1.4.X, and has same problem....google bot
>caching me but dont show any results on search google webpage :-S
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