Talk:Somerset (Tasmania)
SEO Test
[edit]We have great articles here on Wikivoyage.
Unfortunately, most of our ignorant potential readers find Wikitravel in the search engine results rather than us.
This article experiments with a different naming system and different section headings to Wikitravel to see if some simple, easy-to-make changes can enhance our search engine visibility and, consequently, our readership.
Because elevating our search engine placement higher up the page is of value to ALL editors (except, perhaps, those with shares in InternetBrands), I would be very grateful if nobody else would change the lede paragraph, name or section headings, until 20 September 2013 at the earliest. Thanks in advance for your anticipated co-operation! --W. Frankemailtalk 17:46, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
- The first 10 days of the experiment have given positive results. Even though this article has less "facts" and listings than the Wikitravel article, it consistently beats the WT article for all likely searches in all major search engines. I would, therefore, ask that the experiment be allowed to run for another couple of weeks or so - to the start of October 2013 to see if I can add a few more tricks to get it to also beat Expedia in the search results. --W. Frankemailtalk 19:33, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Page banners
[edit]are a huge No-No for SEO because they suppress the <title> HTML. The title tag is the main text that should describe any world wide web on-line document. It's the second most important on–page SEO element (the most important being overall content), and appears in three key places: web browsers, search engine results pages, and external websites.
If you don't give a shit about sabotaging this experiment or boosting our readership, then just go right ahead and keep slapping on a banner here. Surely there can be ONE article in our thousands that does not need/require this SEO killer? --W. Frankemailtalk 10:30, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
WITHOUT the banner, this is what Google's spider sees in the first five lines of HTML in our travel article:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>Somerset, Tasmania – Travel guides at Wikivoyage</title>
<meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.22wmf21" />
so please don't mess things up! --W. Frankemailtalk 11:31, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
- Just to clear this up quickly. What Frank has written above, is patently false. Look at a page, any page. What do you see in the tab name? Is it completely blank? Yes? No. The pagebanner hides the first H1 heading, nothing more. Not the page title. Have a good day. -- torty3 (talk) 11:49, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
- Indeed. Here's the first five lines of HTML in a different travel article that does have a page banner:
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>Somerset (England) – Travel guides at Wikivoyage</title><meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.22wmf22" />- I don't see much difference. LtPowers (talk) 15:25, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Don't add content until "A-day", please!
[edit]I've deliberately kept this article's content inferior to WT's corresponding article to prove that Google's big lie is "Better content - better Google search engine results" --W. Frankemailtalk 10:54, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
In a nutshell, have a look at where both settlements are on https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/-41.0574/145.8536 and that should give it all. It's 7 km away from nearby Burnie, the state's fourth largest city.
For more context, Somerset may have a population of 3000, but it has almost next to nothing for the traveller. I was in Somerset a month ago and the only significance of Somerset is that it's where the A10 (one of Tasmania's most beautiful highways) starts and a stopover point for travellers heading towards the Edge of the World in APCA.
--SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 08:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- That makes sense to me. Ground Zero (talk) 15:05, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
