Search engine optimization
N.B. This page appears to be mostly about SEFURLs (although that is SEO related) rather than search engine optimization. Another page here Search Engine Friendly URLs has the start of how SEFURLs are currently working in Tiki.
Wishlist
Top dogfood priorities
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domain redirect from *.tikiwiki.org to *.tiki.org is not workingfixed - tiki-all_languages.php needs canonical
- Areas Perspective Multi-domain dogfood
- Areas: http://suite.tiki.org/Tiki+vs+eyeOS should not have <li
nk rel="canonical" href="https://suite.tiki.org/Tiki+vs+eyeOS">. It should redirect or at least put a canonical to the domain with suite in it.
- Areas: http://suite.tiki.org/Tiki+vs+eyeOS should not have <li
Top priorities
- Implement for mobile versions: http://searchengineland.com/switchboard-tags-like-canonical-tags-but-for-mobile-seo-127676
- Canonical links: They should be done for various object types and have Short URLs. Please see: http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki/trunk/templates/canonical.tpl
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wikidone- Comments (found in Google results) such as http://dev.tiki.org/tiki-comment-list?type=wiki+page&objectId=Composer and http://dev.tiki.org/tiki-comment-list?type=wiki+page&objectId=TrackerToGanttChart should 301 to the page
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articlesdone -
blogs (needs SEFURL too)done -
blog posts (missing SEFURL)done -
forumdone -
forum posts (missing SEFURL)done (called it forumthread)- Super. Can we have title of threads like we do for blog bosts? http://tiki.org/forumthread45664-http-500-internal-server-error
- This example found in Google search results doesn't have a canonical
- http://tiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?display=&comments_parentId=50955&forumId=26&fullscreen=&PHPSESSID= also found in Google, doesn't have a canonical
- "https://tiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=52156&display=print" was found in a search result. Perfect candidate for a canonical URL
- Tracker items: nice URLs and Canonical
- calendar - too tricky, the sefurl is messy and has too many rewrite rules, needs tidying up
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categoriesdone, but some tidying up of sort order etc needed
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Canonical should link to http version because better for SEODone r40833 - tags for pages such as: http://doc.tiki.org/tiki-browse_freetags.php?tag=+cms&sort_mode=name_asc&broaden=y
- directory: http://tiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=36 vs http://tiki.org/directory36?print=y
Notes
- Inform robots not to index error messages (ex.: db connection issue)
- but added meta generator?
- Error 503 or something
- http://doc.tiki.org/Meta+Tags
- http://antezeta.com/news/avoid-search-engine-indexing
- inform robots not to index machine translated pages like: http://info.tiki.org/tiki-index.php?machine_translate_to_lang=fa&no_bl=y&page=About+Tiki
- http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
- pages which end with .txt should also work with shortURLS
- browser title of https://info.tiki.org/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?view=list&galleryId=4 is "calendar"
Questions
- Should we use absolute URLs for canonicals?
- Answer: yes
- What about: https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/2974
Open
| Rating | Subject | Submitted By | Importance | Easy to solve ? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | Modified | |
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| domain redirect from *.tikiwiki.org to *.tiki.org is not working | Marc Laporte | 9 | 9 | 81 |
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11 Jun 13 | 06 Jul 24 | |||
| Tracker items: nice URLs and Canonical | Marc Laporte | 8 | 4 | 32 |
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03 Nov 13 | 04 Nov 13 | |||
| Invalid URL makes really ugly & broken page: should be nicer fallback | Marc Laporte | 2 | 6 | 12 |
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03 Nov 13 | 04 Nov 13 | |||
| SEF URL for article topics | Nelson Ko | 4 | 20 | 07 Dec 09 | 07 Dec 09 | |||||
| Equivalent characters for page linking, backlinking, searching, etc (ex.: space, underscore, period) | Marc Laporte | 3 | 15 | 29 Oct 08 | 04 Dec 08 | |||||
| To show Links with no Permission for anonym - turns external Sitemap creation in a disasterarea 302 | artbody | 7 | 5 | 35 |
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07 Apr 09 | 04 Nov 13 | |||
| Check & report broken links | Marc Laporte | 5 | 2 | 10 |
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28 Mar 06 | 10 Oct 21 | |||
| Google shouldn't returns edit page link to create a new page | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 7 | 5 | 35 |
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31 Oct 21 | 31 Oct 21 | |||
| Find a way to block robots from indexing in PHP, and configurable from Tiki | Marc Laporte | 8 | 3 | 24 |
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21 Aug 13 | 01 Nov 13 | |||
| Simple way to tell search engine robot to index or not a Tiki site | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 7 | 7 | 49 |
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08 Nov 21 | 06 Jul 24 | |||
| Disallow printing links to be indexed by search engines | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 7 | 7 | 49 |
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08 Nov 21 | 08 Nov 21 | |||
| Creation of wiki page: enter description and wiki page name is suggested (but editable) | nobody? | 2 | 10 | 01 Sep 09 | 14 Jan 10 | |||||
| Tighter integration with Apache's > .htaccess (error messages, etc.) | Marc Laporte | 8 | 5 | 40 |
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04 Dec 08 | 09 Feb 18 | |||
| SEO: exclude irrelevant content and modules from indexing | Marc Laporte | 3 | 3 | 9 |
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25 Nov 13 | 25 Nov 13 | |||
| Issue with hreflang tag in the page header | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 5 | 5 | 25 |
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11 Aug 25 | 11 Aug 25 | |||
| SEFURL with parameters in URL path | Frank Guthausen | 6 | 5 | 30 |
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09 Nov 12 | 28 Oct 13 | |||
| Wrong URL at tiki-admin_sitemap.php for submitting a Tiki generated sitemap (manual VS console) ? | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 10 | 5 | 50 |
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07 Dec 21 | 12 Dec 21 | |||
| Scheduler failing to create sitemap (no commands defined in the "sitemap" namespace) | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 9 | 7 | 63 |
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12 Dec 21 | 20 Jan 22 | |||
| Broken ReWrite rule in .htaccess | maclauk | 3 | 15 | 30 Sep 09 | 06 Jul 24 | |||||
| metatag description broken | Niel Hirjee | 10 | 10 | 99 |
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30 May 17 | 08 Oct 21 |
Pending
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Closed
| Rating | Subject | Submitted By | Importance | Easy to solve ? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | Modified | |
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| site_title_location should default to "After current page's descriptor" | Jeff | 5 | 10 | 50 |
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18 Mar 23 | 11 Apr 23 | |||
| sefurl conflicts with best language | Marc Laporte | 3 | 15 | 27 Jan 08 | 22 Jul 08 | |||||
| Structures don't get SEF links when SEF is enabled | DesertWolf | 6 | 30 |
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28 Apr 10 | 02 Jun 26 | ||||
| page names with colon, like user:person not working when SEFURL is on | Nelson Ko | 8 | 40 | 09 Nov 10 | 05 Jan 11 | |||||
| Robots.txt Disallow entries now must have leading slash | John Hadjisky | 5 | 25 | 21 Dec 05 | 06 Jul 24 | |||||
| Google reject Tiki generated sitemap | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 7 | 5 | 35 |
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13 Sep 21 | 07 Dec 21 | |||
| In dev.org : search bug, old problem(s) not solved in sorting a filtered list. | Ushindi Gedeon | 8 | 40 |
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10 Aug 11 | 02 Jul 26 | ||||
| Group home pages do not work under sefurl | Gergely | 7 | 35 |
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27 Jan 11 | 30 Jun 26 | ||||
| period (.) in page names conflicts with Short URLs rewrite rules | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 | 01 Nov 08 | 16 Jan 09 | |||||
| nofollow on hyperlinks | Marc Laporte | 8 | 8 | 64 |
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28 Feb 08 | 23 Aug 10 | |||
| Canonical URL Tag | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 | 03 Apr 09 | 23 May 11 | |||||
| output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used after 'URL-Rewriter' in tiki-setup.php on line 1890 | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
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15 Aug 07 | 26 Feb 20 | ||||
| Spiders getting lost in tiki-calendar.php, tiki-browse_categories.php and tiki-browse_gallery.php | Marc Laporte | 6 | 30 |
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30 Mar 06 | 26 Feb 20 | ||||
| Registered user cannot delete its own post when SEF url feature is on | abstract4713 | 5 | 25 | 13 Jan 10 | 13 Jan 10 | |||||
| Adding some examples in htaccess | Marc Laporte | 5 | 8 | 40 |
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08 Mar 08 | 26 Dec 10 | |||
| Site Map for visitors and search engines (Sitemap Protocol) | Marc Laporte | 8 | 5 | 40 |
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09 Mar 08 | 17 Dec 17 | |||
| URL structure | StudentPlanet | 25 |
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27 Apr 14 | 10 Dec 25 | |||||
| Slash (/) in wiki page names cause issue with Rewrite Rules | nobody? | 4 | 20 | 28 Aug 09 | 15 Dec 10 | |||||
| Display tracker item title in the sefurl | Marc Laporte | 7 | 4 | 28 |
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18 Oct 11 | 25 Nov 17 | |||
| Full screen mode: Error on first click on dev.tw.o and doc.tw.o | nobody? | 7 | 35 | 19 Apr 09 | 05 Jan 11 |
Discussion on IRC about SEFURLs
[+]Some tips from Dima
Dima is a developer in contact with Regis & Marc and who will join the Tiki community in February 2013
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> Also I'm sending you some seo-recomendations: > 1 ) It would be better to make redirects (for example from > http://info.tiki.org/Join+the+Community to > http://info.tiki.org/Join+the+Community/) All urls should be in one format. > 2) In robots.txt directive Crawl-Delay should be at the bottom of the file > 3) Indexing search should be forbidden by placeing Disallow: > /tiki-searchresults* into robots.txt > 4) <h1> tags should be without any attributes, such as id, class etc. > 5) As I can see, main page is http://tiki.org/tiki-index.php but > http://tiki.org/ redirects to http://info.tiki.org. It's not good :) > 6) Also I've never seen directive Exclude in robots.txt before. >
Huh ? I do not understand this:
Dima wrote:
4) tags should be without any attributes, such as id, class etc.
- why ? — luci
Tricky
- http://doc.tiki.org/Wiki-Syntax+Text -> OK
- http://doc.tiki.org/wiki-Syntax+Text -> not OK because of this rule RewriteRule ^wiki-(A-Za-z0-9+) tiki-index.php?page=$1 QSA,L, but complicated what to do with this rule, backward compatibility suggest we keep it. But it's a rule that don't even support non-alpha in pagename
Related
- URL Rewriting Revamp
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
- http://www.aboutus.org/Learn/Quick-SEO-Fixes-for-Internal-Links
- http://schema.org/
- The Inconvenient Truth About SEO
- https://github.com/PiedWeb/SeoPocketCrawler
- https://github.com/ARCANEDEV/SEO-Helper
- https://github.com/melbahja/seo + https://packagist.org/packages/melbahja/seo
- https://packagist.org/packages/evert/sitemap-php is abandoned so perhaps could be replaced by * https://github.com/melbahja/seo/tree/master/src/Sitemap
- https://github.com/eyecatchup/SEOstats/issues/151 (project seems on hold)
- https://github.com/marcortola/behat-seo-contexts + https://packagist.org/packages/marcortola/behat-seo-contexts