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.
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Thanks, Dan Becker
- Boosting Tuscany web presence - improving consumability Dan Becker
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