On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:38:57 -0800, Isabell Alcott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Being SEO friendly doesn't require installing a plugin by definition, >> some >> web applications are actually good at it out of the box. I think >> MediaWiki >> is one of them :) >> >> > I am not sure if i can confirm this. I did post a short text into a > Wordpress installation with a SEO Tool and landed on No.1 on Google > > The same Text with same header, I did write into a Mediawiki installation > and its not listes on the 1st 10 pages in google. - Did Google even get to indexing the content - Did Google perhaps notice the fact you used the same content in multiple places and then decide to not show the second url because it's duplicate content - etc... Search engines are mystical black boxes only understood by the gremlins (*cough*Google developers*cough*) that live inside them. You can't make a simple test like that and say that something is more optimized for search engines than another. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
