Hi, Monks, Gods, and pmdev'ers -

On a whim, I checked out a few of my nodes on Google and none of them showed up in the search rankings. Scanning the source, I noted that there are no keywords or description meta-tags in any of the deeper pages.

I realize that this would be time-consuming to apply backwards, but it would not be difficult to add a pair of fields to the new node preview page that would then be added in to the final result. Not being directly involved in PM development, I don't know if the storage of these fields would require database field entries for automatic page generation, but I believe the result would be extremely useful in promoting PM as a useful member of the wider programming community and would be worth doing regardless of the effort required. Even if only automatic tag generation routines were added, the result would be a measurable Google and Yahoo presence.

In my capitalist pig incarnation, we use automatically generated keyword and description tags to enhance the placement of our www.cpgjoblist.com job listings. The tags are generated from several of the database fields we already store, such as job title, location, and category, plus a user-supplied field for additional content-specific words. These tags sent our ratings to the moon in both Google and Yahoo, and I think they could do a lot for Perl Monks as well.

In reply to Making Perl Monks accessible to Search Engines by samizdat

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