SEO means Search Engine Optimizing. This HOWTO describes as short as possible how to make your wiki-pages on a Heddate-site (like Elftown) be found by search engines, but the information is useful for all webmasters.
Why pay attention to SEO?
If you write something on the web, it’s often because you want it to be read and be read by the right people. If you don’t want your information to be found, don’t export the wiki-page (or if you’re a webmaster: Make a robot.txt-file.) and stop reading here.
So let us start providing the web with our useful information that will benefit humankind and all that’s good and just.
Selecting keywords
This is the most important step! Select 1-5 keywords that totally describe what your page is about. Have a little thought about competition though. Even if your page describes “sex” generally, you have to be more specific, otherwise you’ll never be found. Unless your page will be very very very good, of course. But if your page describes a keyword that you can’t find at all on Google, then one keyword is enough, but you can add more if the page contains information about that too. But it’s generally best to use the rule one page - one information. Make two pages if it’s two things you’re describing, and make subpages if you have a general page and pieces of more specific information.
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