We control the template [1], we just need to play with it... [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/site/templates/TUSCANY_confluence_html_export.xml
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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://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 > -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/
