[pmwiki-users]SEO: Avoiding Headings in the SideBar

H. Fox haganfox at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 10:28:21 CDT 2005


On 8/14/05, Crisses <crisses at kinhost.org> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 11, 2005, at 9:22 PM, H. Fox wrote:
> 
> > What I'm trying to get across is: Using headings in the SideBar is
> > misleading to tools that take advantage of heading structure of pages
> > for various purposes.  It would be better to achieve the same
> > appearance with, say
> 
> I've been studying Google and other search engines methods of ranking
> pages.  You're 100% correct.
> 
> This is going to mess up EVERY wiki's Google Search Rankings.
> Irrelevant headers on the page -- especially H1s -- are going to out-
> rank the page's REAL h1 or h2.
> 
> Ouch.

Exactly.  Sidebar headings are misleading to the search engine.  I
don't think authors would want them there if they knew the
consequences.

>  Those are one of the primary criteria for indexing pages along
> with the "Title" of the page (which makes using (:title Name of the
> Page:) much more important for wikis that want good Google.).
> 
> Time to fix my wiki templates.

Same here.  I'm about to upload a new version of the Light Skin that
has a workaround to avoid using headings in the sidebar.

Hagan




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