Ask Fedora: Do we need to add a "solved" tag to answered questions to increase visibility in search engines

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 24 21:41:57 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:54:13AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > google search -> "site:ask.fedoraproject.org create desktop shortcuts
> > solved"
> People won't know to add 'solved' there, and google should give them
> the answer thats most linked to (in general). 

I wouldn't say that it's universal, but this is a common convention in web
forums, and therefore in searches for solutions.

> Or we could try and use 'meta' on the site itself, but not sure that
> gets everyone as invloved as they would need to be. 

This has my vote, if we can set it up as a subsite, but I think using the
"meta" tag doesn't work.


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