On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Luciano Resende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> There is a template we use for exporting the confluence pages to html. > Let me look if I can make something that would add the confluence tags > to the pages, or at least add a fixed set of keywords to all tags. > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Dan Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Simon Laws wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dan Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I noticed one of the best ways of boosting Confluence search results > for > >>> Tuscany wiki pages is to tag the pages. Even the simplest, nearly-empty > >>> page > >>> with a single tag will show up higher in wiki search results than the > >>> most > >>> detailed, lengthy, important treatise without tags. Since Confluence > >>> searches span multiple Apache projects, it will be to Tuscany's benefit > >>> to > >>> show up higher in search results. (Hopefully these labels are added as > >>> meta > >>> tags for external search engines too.) > >>> > >>> Another benefit is that when a user clicks on a label, the user is > >>> presented with a list of similar articles. Much better than navigating > a > >>> big > >>> hierarchy. > >>> > >>> Adding labels is easy. When you are viewing or editing a page on the > >>> Tuscany wiki, you should see a small "Labels" text below the page view > >>> and > >>> info tabs. There will be either a list of labels or "(None)" if there > are > >>> no > >>> labels. If you are logged into Confluence, you will get a small yellow > >>> edit > >>> text label as well. Click on this edit label to add existing tags or to > >>> make > >>> up new ones. > >>> > >>> I just went through a bunch of Tuscany pages and added a large set of > >>> tags. > >>> Ideas include: osgi, testing, presentations, data-bindings, > web-services, > >>> architecture, videos, etc. Please help tag our articles. > >> > >> I just tried a couple to see what happens. Do you know the tags get > >> applied > >> to the HTML? > >> > > > > Good HTML pages will include meta tags such as "keywords" and > "description" > > to help search engines and web crawlers identify and categorize the web > > page. > > > > Unfortunately the internal Confluence wiki pages seems to provide no meta > > tags made from the page labels. On the other hand, the Confluence search > > algorithm appears to make use of these labels heavily. > > > > The external pages do have meta tags for "Content-Type", but I have not > seen > > any for keywords. I have added a few more labels there, so let me check > in a > > day or so to see if they have been published and propagated externally. > > > > I am no Confluence expert, but perhaps someone knows if we can publish > the > > tags? Is there a publish option somewhere? > > > > -- > > Thanks, Dan Becker > > > > > > -- > Luciano Resende > Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk > http://people.apache.org/~lresende <http://people.apache.org/%7Elresende> > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > How much control do we have over the template? Can we pull the confluence tags and insert them into the HTML so that Google is likely to find them in one of the usual ways. Simon
