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SEO suggestions
« on: July 10, 2012, 10:31:35 pm »
I was looking at this topic when I realized that's not the real problem. If you just search for some thread on Omnimaga on Google and click a link, a quarter of the time it'll show you the printer-friendly page, a quarter of the time it'll show you the page in wap/wap2/imode, a quarter of the time it'll show you the full page without the www in the link, and a quarter of the time it'll show the page it's supposed to show. It's a nightmare D:

I'd suggest generating a rel="canonical" meta tag in the page header, which would probably fix the Google mess in a few weeks.
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 10:47:21 pm »
What is "Canonical"?
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2012, 10:52:42 pm »
rel="canonical" is a meta tag (in HTML) that websites use when they have many pages with identical content. It tells search engines that the pages are essentially the same, and that one of them (the "canonical" one) should be the one it lists in its search results.

For example, if a webpage had a mobile version, a tablet version, and a desktop version at different URLs, the webmaster should add a rel="canonical" tag in the mobile and tablet versions pointing to the desktop version, so that Google knows that they're just different versions of the same page, and that the desktop one is what it should index.

In our case, the wap/wap2/imode and action=printpage pages (such as http://ourl.ca/16559/310155;action=printpage) should carry a rel="canonical" tag pointing to the main URL of the topic (such as http://ourl.ca/16559/310155#msg256031).
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2012, 01:07:18 am »
I've run into this problem on an almost daily basis (using google as an alternative to the slow forum search), and it sounds like a great idea :)
Why is the search so slow, anyway? 0.o  Ever since we changed servers (and changed something iirc?) it's been like that.
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2012, 09:36:19 am »
Hey that's a pretty good idea. Also rel="prev" and rel="next" might be added as well.
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2012, 10:39:57 pm »
There's an app for that (installed and tweaked to apply to all themes)
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2012, 10:46:34 pm »
Awesome, checked and it works :)
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2012, 10:50:53 pm »
Cool to hear it's added. :)

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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2012, 10:51:22 pm »
Netham45, it looks like that mod only adds the canoical tag to pages in the normal view, meaning not imode, wap, wap2, or print preview. Which doesn't really solve the problem at all. :P
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2012, 10:52:57 pm »
Except that Runer just pointed out on IRC it doesn't work on the mobile and print pages, which was 67% of the point anyway :/ Any chance the addon (or the raw scripts for the mobile and print pages) could be modded?

EDIT: Ehh, ninja'd.
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Re: Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2012, 10:57:46 pm »
Okay, i'll look into it.

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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2012, 10:58:56 pm »
Quote from: Netham45 on July 11, 2012, 10:57:46 pm
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Re: Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2012, 11:22:59 pm »
Fixed, on WAP and Print pages now.

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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2012, 11:28:04 pm »
Oh I see. Weird. I hope it's not forced advertising from the app's part x.x
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Re: SEO suggestions
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2012, 11:28:49 pm »
It's not, I can turn it off from the admin panel. I had just left all that at default, though.
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