Hi Mike, On 26/11/2019 09:45, Mike Saunders wrote: > I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to get the new design higher > on Google. Has anyone looked into SEO / redirects or anything like that? > Otherwise, I can investigate at some point...
With the current help system, this would be hard to do in my guess. The meta info are missing and the current process when releasing documentation is not generating these needed pieces of info. + OpenGraph and Twitter Cards are missing as well. The URL rewriting could be improved as well. i.e. from a SEO point of view: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/05/new_help.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=UNIX is hard to guess from a robot and the latter prefers something like this: https://docs.libreoffice.org/en-US/common/newhelp It's sad to say this but the new doc system from MSFT (docs.microsoft.com) could be a great inspiration here wrt. URL naming e.g. [1] The old help system based on MediaWiki is more SEO friendly because Google (and other search engines) knows how to index MediaWiki-based websites. The best bet like discussed a bit with Olivier a few weeks ago on the LibreOfficeFR Telegram account would be to use another help system, relying on well established system rather than creating our very own. In 2019, all the organizations I'm participating in are using ReadTheDocs for a reason :) But this needs to be analyzed from a programmatic point of view. From my understanding BoD is quite reluctant (and it's understandable!) because any other system than what we currently have is not well integrated into LibreOffice; i.e. the system linking the GUI to the help system needs to be made hard solid first before proposing another solution. :) As TDF is a meritocratic system, this could be a nice subject for a hackathon (the FOSDEM hackfest?) :) Regards, [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/provisioning-packages/provisioning-how-it-works -- William Gathoye Hyper<hack>tive volunteer for LibreOffice Proud member of The Document Foundation Member of LaMouette - French based association promoting ODF and LibreOffice -- 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
