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</span></div>On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 23:31, Santhosh Thottingal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(103, 117, 58); ">santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Srikanth mentioned a valid issue related to search engine optimization<br>with Indian wikis. I dont get any result for this query:<br>"Malayalam + Mango " to take me to Mango article in Malayalam wiki.<br>Because there is no way a search engine can index the word Mango in<br>
english to the Malayalam wiki page of Mango. Having Mango in URL does<br>not help search engines.<br>I know some SEO tricks used by Malayalam news portals to address this.<br>They use Meta tag efficiently and put english and malayalam keywords<br>
associated with the article. For eg: a news article about<br>Mullapperiyar Dam will contain a meta tag with keywords<br>"മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാര് ഡാം, mullapperiyar dam, "<br>Some of the news portals even integrated this trick their news<br>
publishing workflow with custom plugins to CMS systems(like Drupal).<br><br>If we want to get people searching in English to our wiki articles, we<br>can think about a Meta tag solution - some extension that injects<br>keywords to meta tag.<br>
<br>Don't we need to point show <a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(103, 117, 58); ">ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi</a> if one search<br>for Kochi? atleast within first 10 results?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div> Completely agree with you Santhosh. SEO is as important as outreach (its online outreach after all). Ravi,Sundar,myself were discussing this on a dinner after a meetup. But manually adding Meta tags is an additional overhead on content creators IMHO. If there is some automatic tagging with interwiki english page category etc(Bot idea ?), its worth a try. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Ravi, can you please add more since you are an expert :) </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br><a href="http://srik.me" target="_blank">http://srik.me</a><br>