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==Search engine text== | ==Search engine text== | ||
About 70% of our traffic comes from search engines. Therefore the preview text for each result that is seen in a search is important | About 70% of our traffic comes from search engines. Therefore the preview text for each result that is seen in a search is important. These texts are especially important for high traffic pages. This preview text is meant to give a short summary of the page so the visitor knows what they will be looking at. The following code generates the preview text. For example for the [[72 virgins]] article, we have: | ||
:<nowiki><metadesc>What the Qur'an, hadith and Islamic scholars say about the 72 Virgins, and their physical, sexual and personality attributes.</metadesc></nowiki> | :<nowiki><metadesc>What the Qur'an, hadith and Islamic scholars say about the 72 Virgins, and their physical, sexual and personality attributes.</metadesc></nowiki> | ||
When preview text is not defined, the search engine usually takes text from the page (usually whatever is found first) and this may or may not be helpful but is never as good as our own defined text. | When preview text is not defined, the search engine usually takes text from the page (usually whatever is found first) and this may or may not be helpful but is never as good as our own defined text. | ||
The best time to use this <nowiki><</nowiki>metadesc> feature is when a page is created. Google indexes new pages very soon after they are created (a few hours to a few days). At that time it will also index the search engine text. | |||
==Dealing with Vandalism== | ==Dealing with Vandalism== | ||