The Google PageRank for English Wikivoyage's Main Page suddenly plummeted from 6 to 0 just recently. It would be great to have Google Webmaster Tools so that we could check for an explanation of what went wrong, and potentially submit a request for reconsideration.
My understanding is that we can get these tools by adding Google Analytics to the site (in order to "claim" the site), and can do that by adding a <meta> item to our root URL. Does anyone know who to follow up with to make that happen? I'd be more than happy to take a lead with follow up with Google afterwards, if that role would need filling.
Thank you,
-Peter
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Peter Barrett Fitzgerald peter@rugendo.org wrote:
The Google PageRank for English Wikivoyage's Main Page suddenly plummeted from 6 to 0 just recently. It would be great to have Google Webmaster Tools so that we could check for an explanation of what went wrong, and potentially submit a request for reconsideration.
My understanding is that we can get these tools by adding Google Analytics to the site (in order to "claim" the site), and can do that by adding a
<meta> item to our root URL. Does anyone know who to follow up with to make that happen? I'd be more than happy to take a lead with follow up with Google afterwards, if that role would need filling.
Google Analytics is not allowed on Wikimedia sites, as it does not fit within the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy.
If I remember correctly, the Wikimedia Foundation maintains a Google Webmaster Tools account in case issues come up where an account is needed. If Wikivoyage is not already on that account, I'm sure they could add it and help fix whatever issue there is. I am not sure who maintains that, if it's still around, so I've CC'd Erik Möller so he can chime in.
Since Wikivoyage is hosted on the same servers as all of the other Wikimedia websites, you can always direct issues like these to Wikimedia's Bugzilla installation https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or the wikitech-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l. The people who run the servers read messages sent to those too places, so they're a very good place to ask for help when problems crop up! They're usually some of the ones who are actually able to help. :-)
-- Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) caseybrown.org
The easiest person to followup with on that is Philippe (philippe@wikimedia.org). He controls the Wikipedia.org google webmaster tools that we claimed.
For privacy policy reasons we obviously use the meta tag rather then google analytics.
James
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On Mar 11, 2013, at 20:30, Peter Barrett Fitzgerald peter@rugendo.org wrote:
The Google PageRank for English Wikivoyage's Main Page suddenly plummeted from 6 to 0 just recently. It would be great to have Google Webmaster Tools so that we could check for an explanation of what went wrong, and potentially submit a request for reconsideration.
My understanding is that we can get these tools by adding Google Analytics to the site (in order to "claim" the site), and can do that by adding a <meta> item to our root URL. Does anyone know who to follow up with to make that happen? I'd be more than happy to take a lead with follow up with Google afterwards, if that role would need filling.
Thank you,
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