Hi, my main page url currently reads: http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
PM Poon
Hi, I got it done! Thank you very much for troubling all of you!
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Hi, my main page url currently reads: http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
PM Poon
Hi,
I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks,
Linda
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Hi, I got it done! Thank you very much for troubling all of you!
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Hi, my main page url currently reads:
http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
PM Poon
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'free' 'online' 'encyclopedia' are some of the most generic, washed out terms on the Internet. You should fire your SEO - you will be forced to compete directly with Wikipedia.
At any rate, Linda, you can turn off the Main Page header by adding this to MediaWiki:Common.css
/* don't display Main Page on the Main Page */ body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }
Then add = Whatever = at the top of the wikitext.
Cheers,
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Hi,
I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks,
Linda
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Hi, I got it done! Thank you very much for troubling all of you!
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, my main page url currently reads:
http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
PM Poon
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 22:10, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
'free' 'online' 'encyclopedia' are some of the most generic, washed out terms on the Internet. You should fire your SEO - you will be forced to compete directly with Wikipedia.
At any rate, Linda, you can turn off the Main Page header by adding this to MediaWiki:Common.css
/* don't display Main Page on the Main Page */ body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }
Then add = Whatever = at the top of the wikitext.
Better yet, change MediaWiki:Mainpage to the desired page name (and also adjust MediaWiki:Sidebar appropriately if necessary).
Hi Brian, but everyone is using Main Page. Actually I used "Free Simplified Online Encyclopedia." 221 entries for "simplified encyclopedia" in Google Search, and none for "simplified online encyclopedia" Would you think that "Free Simplified Encyclopedia" would be more effective?
By the way, my encyclopedia is so new that it has so many red links. Does it hurt my search engine crawl?
PM Poon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
'free' 'online' 'encyclopedia' are some of the most generic, washed out terms on the Internet. You should fire your SEO - you will be forced to compete directly with Wikipedia.
At any rate, Linda, you can turn off the Main Page header by adding this to MediaWiki:Common.css
/* don't display Main Page on the Main Page */ body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }
Then add = Whatever = at the top of the wikitext.
Cheers,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Linda Rose lnr@qad.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks,
Linda
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Hi, I got it done! Thank you very much for troubling all of you!
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Hi, my main page url currently reads:
http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
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I do not intend to give SEO advice...
however, if you want some, here is the best SEO advice you will find anywhere: Add new pages with original and interesting content to your encyclopedia every day.
If you're not adding new content every day that isn't found elsewhere on the Internet, you may as well throw out every other "SEO" tip you've been given.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Brian, but everyone is using Main Page. Actually I used "Free Simplified Online Encyclopedia." 221 entries for "simplified encyclopedia" in Google Search, and none for "simplified online encyclopedia" Would you think that "Free Simplified Encyclopedia" would be more effective?
By the way, my encyclopedia is so new that it has so many red links. Does it hurt my search engine crawl?
PM Poon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
'free' 'online' 'encyclopedia' are some of the most generic, washed out terms on the Internet. You should fire your SEO - you will be forced to compete directly with Wikipedia.
At any rate, Linda, you can turn off the Main Page header by adding this
to
MediaWiki:Common.css
/* don't display Main Page on the Main Page */ body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }
Then add = Whatever = at the top of the wikitext.
Cheers,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Linda Rose lnr@qad.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks,
Linda
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Hi, I got it done! Thank you very much for troubling all of you!
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, my main page url currently reads:
http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
PM Poon
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Thank you, Brian. That is precisely what I am doing everyday.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I do not intend to give SEO advice...
however, if you want some, here is the best SEO advice you will find anywhere: Add new pages with original and interesting content to your encyclopedia every day.
If you're not adding new content every day that isn't found elsewhere on the Internet, you may as well throw out every other "SEO" tip you've been given.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Brian, but everyone is using Main Page. Actually I used "Free
Simplified
Online Encyclopedia." 221 entries for "simplified encyclopedia" in
Search, and none for "simplified online encyclopedia" Would you think
that
"Free Simplified Encyclopedia" would be more effective?
By the way, my encyclopedia is so new that it has so many red links. Does it hurt my search engine crawl?
PM Poon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu
wrote:
'free' 'online' 'encyclopedia' are some of the most generic, washed out terms on the Internet. You should fire your SEO - you will be forced to compete directly with Wikipedia.
At any rate, Linda, you can turn off the Main Page header by adding
this
to
MediaWiki:Common.css
/* don't display Main Page on the Main Page */ body.page-Main_Page h1.firstHeading { display:none; }
Then add = Whatever = at the top of the wikitext.
Cheers,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Linda Rose lnr@qad.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks,
Linda
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Hi, I got it done! Thank you very much for troubling all of you!
PM Poon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, my main page url currently reads:
http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free
online
encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
PM Poon
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Hi Linda, here is the instruction from Mediawikihttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_change_which_page_is_the_main_page.3F :
What I do was to create another page with the title I want. Then follow the following Mediawiki instructions:
By default, MediaWiki looks for a page with the title *Main Page* and serves this as the default page. This can be changed by altering the contents of * MediaWiki:Mainpage http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mainpage* to point to a different title. If this does not change the 'Main Page' link included on the sidebar at install time, edit *MediaWiki:Sidebarhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar *.
Try it and see. It's very easy. If you have any problem, I can even do it for you, LOL.
PM Poon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Linda Rose lnr@qad.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks,
Linda
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, my main page url currently reads:
http://www.dummipedia.org/Main_Page
My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
Thank you.
PM Poon
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Linda Rose lnr@qad.com wrote:
Hi, I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks, Linda
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My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
You can also do it in the skin, but that seems like the hardest of the three mentioned ways...
In <yourskin>.php
if ( 'Main Page' != $this->title ) { $displayTitle = $this->title; } else { $displayTitle = "Whatever you want it to be"; }
Course that's very pseudo-codey.
-Courtney
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Linda Rose lnr@qad.com wrote:
Hi, I would like to do that too. How did you do it?
Thanks, Linda
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My SEO advisor has advised me to changed "Main Page" to "free online encyclopedia". Is there any way to do that?
You can also do it in the skin, but that seems like the hardest of the three mentioned ways...
-Courtney
That's the wrong way. It will go on next update. You should change MediaWiki:Mainpage That's why configuration options exist!
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