hi Ralph
I also use the 1.0.7 firefox extension, and I'm using the "google pagerank status" plugin.
I searched for alturo in dmoz: http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=alturo
On this page there is a link to alturo and the next one is http://alturoforum.gsfnet.de/ http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/romanistik/zfk/tempsaspecte.htm
I you go on alturo's site, their only the green line showing in the pagerank plugin. But if you go on the other link (uni-tuebingen...) their is the green line, of course, but also a little blue red-yellow stuff which is the signal for a dmoz guy.
My point is that maybe the fact that none of the mediawiki website have this signal, is maybe due to the use of urlrewriting. And if this is the case for such as the gadget it may also give problems to some robots.
And I ask: has anybody found a way to have the nice urls from url rewriting AND have the little dmoz sign showing .
Please, do give me more material on this matter. I'm really interested.
François
Ralph Kern wrote:
I use FireFox 1.0.7 and the SearchStatus extension. Is that the one you are related to?
On my wiki+forum http://alturoforum.gsfnet.de, which is included in some new DMOZ category the status line does not correctly indicate the category listing. It is not shown on Google PR, but it is shown on the Alexa PR box.
Therefore I guess it is not a topic of the wiki software, but of the extension and the Google habits of lazy DMOZ updates. It took already 3 month for the last update of DMOZ to be reflected by Google.
regards Ralph
FxParlant wrote:
I'm not a specialist, but if you use firefox and a google pagerank plugin, you've surely noticed sometimes this little thingy, yellow and blue which appears on some websites. I'm told it is meant to say that the site was accepted in the DMOZ directory.
I've just noticed that many of mediawiki users are already in the dmoz, but the plugin doesn't show it. I guess this is caused by the url rewriting habbit in use among the mediawiki community.
- Am I right about these suppositions ?
- Has someone found a way to keep the redirection for the pages, but
have at least on the welcome page, the dmoz signal?
As a conclusion, I should say it is not a big deal, and google pagerank are not so much of an important matter. Nevertheless, if I can make my site any better for directories, and engines that's always a good thing.
Thanks for your reactions and I hope, hints.
François http://www.fxparlant.net