100? Ouch!
Google recognizes keywords in urls that are separated by dots or
hyphens, but words separared by underscores are viewed as one unit.
A Google rep even recommended hyphens over underscores:
The difference is really small, and if a project gets a lot of link
love (like wikipedia) it probably wouldn't matter, I guess.
On 5/13/06, Elliott F. Cable <ecable(a)avxw.com> wrote:
... How will this affect you're search engine
rankings? And you'd
have to modify them ALL, every single one - if you missed one, it
would break major things, would it not? The whole linking scheme,
really.
I'd say 100+. I could be wrong, but in my experience hacking
mediawiki, everything is so tightly interwoven that changing even a
small tiny thing that you think would only appear once, actually
appears in 10 different places. Making this a variable in some ways
wouldn't be a bad idea, but in others, it wouldn't work - what about
interwiki linking? Templates? using dots in titles that are NOT
spaces?
But again, how would this help with google?
On May 13, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Seun Osewa wrote:
> Well,
>
> I'm launching a new site that I'll be developing for years or more,
> and I feel that if this project that'll take maybe a few hours in a
> weekend will affect my search engine rankings by even just 5%, it's
> worth getting it over with right now.
>
> If the community will help me, then instead of just changing the
> underscores to dots i might even be able to create a patch which
> makes
> it possible for people to use any character as the separator
> character.
>
> How many places do you think I'll need to modify? 5? 10? 20? 50?
>
> Seun.
>
http://www.nairaland.com/
>
> On 5/13/06, Elliott F. Cable <ecable(a)avxw.com> wrote:
>> You'd have to look through most of the source code for mediawiki,
>> methinks. Big project. WHy, if I may ask?
>>
>> On May 13, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Seun Osewa wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to change the separator character on my mediawiki
>>> installation from the current underscore format to dot format.
>>>
>>> I have read a previous exchange in which it was noted that the
>>> underscore is hard-coded into mediawiki in many places, but i
>>> feel it
>>> would be worth the effort.
>>>
>>> What are the places/files/directories where I should start
>>> looking? Thanks!
>>>
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>>>
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