https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36581
--- Comment #2 from Edward Chernenko <[email protected]> 2012-05-17 07:47:15 UTC --- I'd say that every wiki except Wikipedia should care. Most encyclopedias get >60% of visitors from search engines. <h1> tag is always used by a search engine to determine a topic, most important keywords, thematic category. Knowing that, there are two reasons why the garbage inside <h1> is bad: 1) it was never expected that <h1> would contain anything but pure text (every book in HTML and SEO says that), therefore a search engine might not (I stress MIGHT) parse its contents to the end. That means "span", "auto" etc. may be recognized as the high-priority keywords for the page. That means sacrificing the actual keywords. 2) some search engines do not like garbage in H1-H6 tags; they treat it as a malformed HTML code or even as an attempt to deceive a search engine, and the positioning of pages containing this may be penalized. This problem is not just about <h1> and those spans. HTML generated by MediaWiki contains tonn of things (like <meta name="generator" etc.) which are extremely not recommended by any SEO guidebook. Personally I had to divise a filter for my wiki which erases all these tags. However I believe it would be great to have a "$wgTurnOffAllTheseUnneededHTMLGarbage" variable in MediaWiki config which would spare the same work for others. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
