Joe, Careful design would allow a static tiddlywiki to be indexed by search engines, and bring people to a domain address then serve first the static content but then guide the user to the interactive content. I have not yet done this but assumed this is what was happening on TiddlyWiki.com as an example. Jeremy et al could explain
Tony On Saturday, 5 January 2019 08:34:48 UTC+11, joearms wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 27 December 2018 09:39:16 UTC+1, Riz wrote: >> >> Hi Joe, >> >> I see you are enjoying your TW5 quite well. Here is a thought for your >> consideration. The basic TW5 you download from GitHub or tiddlywiki.com >> is a good fit for several things. Unfortunately the idea of using >> Tiddlywiki itself as a blog has a major downside. The unique structure and >> data storage of TW5 doesn't fly well with the search engine optimisation >> guidelines of most search engines. Here's an experiment. The most popular >> website using Tiddlywiki is obviously tiddlywiki.com itself. Now search >> Google for "Tiddlywiki HelloThere". You will see that large part of links >> point to tiddlywiki.com/static/, which are not Tiddlywiki files, but >> static HTML generated by Tiddlywiki. >> >> > >> Ergo, if you are serious about using TW5 for blogging, use it not as blog >> itself, but as a static site generator, a role for which Tiddlywiki is one >> of the best fits. >> > > The problem with that is that the static site cannot, I suspect, interact > with the user - I want to change > the perception of a blog from "something you read" to "something you > interact with" and I don't think > this is possible with a static site. > > The solution seems to me to change the output format of the TW to a form > that search engines can > index. > > Actually, search engines can index PDF etc. so *if* the TW became very > popular then search engine > providers would write code to index TW's - we shall have to hope this > happens :-) > > /Joe > > >> There was a "blog edition Tiddlywiki" as a part of core. However I cannot >> find it in github right now. >> >> Sincerely, >> Riz >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/63bd238f-d210-4a2a-99b2-d8d575d44e44%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
