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/
