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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) | SEO (Search Engine Optimization) | ||
This article has information that can be applied broadly, but the focus is on how SEO is used by WordPress and MediaWiki. | |||
There are so many websites that have so much information about so many granular details. Sometimes they even mention the basics, like quality content and a well organized website. That's 98% of it right there. The next 3%, as is similar to many things, is the most difficult. About 2% of that is presenting it to a search engine in the manner they recommend. That can be done through sitemaps. But if the website is well organized and not very large, a sitemap may not be necessary. | |||
The classic META Tags have 5 attributes: charset, content, http-equiv, name, scheme, with the name attribute the most relevant to SEO. The Name Attribute has several values: application-name, author, desription, generator, keywords, viewport. | The classic META Tags have 5 attributes: charset, content, http-equiv, name, scheme, with the name attribute the most relevant to SEO. The Name Attribute has several values: application-name, author, desription, generator, keywords, viewport. | ||
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The Description Tag does NOT show up anywhere in a Page or Post, nor do they appear in raw HTML. | The Description Tag does NOT show up anywhere in a Page or Post, nor do they appear in raw HTML. | ||
Open Graph / OG, shows up in HTML as <meta property="og:image" content="https://NameOfFile&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;nowiki/&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;.jpg"/> According to current information, Facebook uses it. Google | Open Graph / OG, shows up in HTML as <meta property="og:image" content="https://NameOfFile&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;nowiki/&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;.jpg"/> According to current information, Facebook uses it. Google | ||
Default ALT Description to compensate for blank alt tags | Default ALT Description to compensate for blank alt tags | ||
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Media Library Assistant can Bulk update ALT fields for images (note WP Media folder has to be deactivated for it to work) | Media Library Assistant can Bulk update ALT fields for images (note WP Media folder has to be deactivated for it to work) | ||
=== Image CleanUp === | ===Image CleanUp=== | ||
No plugins worked better than an old fashion file search using a regular expression in Directory Opus to find all of the automatically generated images (thumbnails): .*x[0-9][0-9][0-9] (then moved them to another folder instead of deleting them) | No plugins worked better than an old fashion file search using a regular expression in Directory Opus to find all of the automatically generated images (thumbnails): .*x[0-9][0-9][0-9] (then moved them to another folder instead of deleting them) | ||