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See also:

• Monetizing MediaWiki

Old advice ∞

Specifically regarding Google:

These are all things you can do right now in mere formatting to increase Google’s ability to rank your pages.

• MediaWiki and Google Sitemaps

• Rewriting the skin.

  • Google is quite aversive to dirty code.
• URL scheming and robot.txt to make sure that Google only sees page content, and more importantly only current revisions of page content.

• Make sure important keywords are mentioned on each page through footers/headers and category listings.

Of course then you have to give google something to rank.. make sure you’re users are writing Google-friendly wikicode.

TODO – Further research ∞

• manipulating keywords and other such things.

• hacking the templating, and manipulating the layout and text.

  • This stuff is very very hard.

Meta tags ∞

• There was a MediaWiki meta extension, but it didn’t really work.. some of it did but just supplemented and does not replace the existing stuff.

• Meta keywords seems to be somewhat automatic.