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?
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Thanks, Dan Becker
