Hi Claire Search Engine Optimization is close to black magic and a moving target exercise that Google and others SE lay to prevent frauds and unfair behaviour.
At the moment, each release of the online Help pages have thousands of web pages per language and a few basic and proven techniques for SEO, notably sitemap of all pages and Schema.org that you suggest. The work was done in 2017 when the new online help was designed. At that time, I implemented <body itemscope="true" itemtype="http://schema.org/TechArticle";> <h1 itemprop="articleSection" id="hd_id3153884">The LibreOffice Help</h1> for all the Help. However I couldn't measure if the recipe worked because SEs have their own pace for indexing the pages and our volume isn't so appreciated by them. Furthermore, our Help system is historically a mix of Reference contents and User Guide contents, which makes the selection of the right schema a challenge. Solutions exist but need a bit more work to improve the internal XML of our Help, such that pages can have the right indication of its semantics. So the use of Schema.org looks simple at first glance but it brings several issues to our current Help implementation. - The video shows a very simple HTML editing that works with a dozen of pages. When it comes to 1000's times 50 languages it becomes impractical to do it manually. - LibreOffice has its Help pages in Extensible markup Language (XML) to simplify Help editing, reuse of contents and be translation friendly. As said above not every page will follow the same schema, and the transformation from XML to HTML must therefore consider the semantics. This is not yet implemented. - Each change in paragraphs attributes such as "itemprop" example above in the source XML will trigger retranslation of the paragraph contents wrapped by the <h1></h1> tags, a job our translators often complain. Sorry for the techy lines above, the idea behind Schema.org is interesting and is implemented since 2017, but it is still far from optimal and I'd like to have some assurance that the energy to spend in this technique worth the effort. Kind regards Olivier Em 18/07/2019 21:53, Jean Weber escreveu: > Please send LO-related email to the list, not to me personally. Thanks! > Jean > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Claire Wood <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 07:43 > Subject: Forwarded from Ellis Pratt (linkedin.com/in/ellispratt): > https://youtu.be/4rRFuonBTw0 > To: <[email protected]> > > > Hi Jean, I don’t know who manages the online help but are there plans for > ranking instructions via search engine optimisation? I thought this video > by Ellis was very good and worth sharing. > > > https://youtu.be/4rRFuonBTw0 > -- Olivier Hallot LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator Comunidade LibreOffice Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-03:00 http://tdf.io/joinus -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
