Starting a new thread for SEO On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 23:31, Santhosh Thottingal < santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Srikanth mentioned a valid issue related to search engine optimization > with Indian wikis. I dont get any result for this query: > "Malayalam + Mango " to take me to Mango article in Malayalam wiki. > Because there is no way a search engine can index the word Mango in > english to the Malayalam wiki page of Mango. Having Mango in URL does > not help search engines. > I know some SEO tricks used by Malayalam news portals to address this. > They use Meta tag efficiently and put english and malayalam keywords > associated with the article. For eg: a news article about > Mullapperiyar Dam will contain a meta tag with keywords > "മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാര് ഡാം, mullapperiyar dam, " > Some of the news portals even integrated this trick their news > publishing workflow with custom plugins to CMS systems(like Drupal). > > If we want to get people searching in English to our wiki articles, we > can think about a Meta tag solution - some extension that injects > keywords to meta tag. > > Don't we need to point show ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi if one search > for Kochi? atleast within first 10 results? >
Completely agree with you Santhosh. SEO is as important as outreach (its online outreach after all). Ravi,Sundar,myself were discussing this on a dinner after a meetup. But manually adding Meta tags is an additional overhead on content creators IMHO. If there is some automatic tagging with interwiki english page category etc(Bot idea ?), its worth a try. Ravi, can you please add more since you are an expert :) Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me
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