altaic 1176541430|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hey there, I was hoping you guys could add Google Webmaster Tools support just like Google Analytics. It just requires temporarily placing a meta tag in the main page (or all the pages, if you just want to duplicate the Google Analytics code):
<meta name="verify-v1" content="TheRandomStringGivenByGoogleWebmasterTools" />
altaic 1176860544|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Does anybody read these forums?
Phil Chett 1176901535|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
the second question i can answer. Yes.
The first one i can't, but i suspect that the answer might be no.
What are you trying to achieve?..
altaic 1176931214|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
My first post isn't a question, it's a request. I already know it can be done and that it's not difficult. Like I said, I'd like to use Google Webmaster Tools, which allows management of indexed content among other things. Very useful.
Phil Chett 1176970521|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
then have patience young grass hopper, i sure the master will get back to you, as soon as he has fried many bigger fish :-)
altaic 1177293134|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
It'd be nice if "the master" would drop in and say a word or two, regardless of other culinary endeavors…
gerdami 1176980354|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
As regard the Google Analytics Service:
altaic 1176981127|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Google Analytics isn't at all what this thread is about…
gerdami 1177063094|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I apologize.
However, why did you start a new thread since you already posted a reply to a similar topic at
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-2607/meta-tags-in-head ?
altaic 1177104579|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Because that was in the help section, and I realized after the fact that I should have posted to the new features section.
vlad59 1216219500|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hi,
I admit I'd also like that.
But take your time.
altaic 1178288036|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Jeez. It's been three weeks and not hide nor hair of a dev on this forum. Longer than that if you look at other posts. Anyone know what's up?
altaic 1178669574|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I'm also willing to write a module for Google Webmaster Tools; I just need a copy of the Google Analytics module to modify. Just putting that out there.
michal frackowiak 1180347415|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hi,
Is the GW functionality that necessary? I would most like to (most likely) postpone it since it is useful to a very few users only and move the "custom meta tags" to the Wikidot v2 which is under development.
regards - michal
altaic 1180569801|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
No, it's not necessary, just really useful if you want to see/manage how your site is indexed. If you move it to wikidot v2, do you have any idea when v2 will be finalized?
Thanks,
Will
barak 1181507519|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
A lot of search engines make use of the meta description tag (incl. google and ask.com). So it would definitely be useful to have control over it. Not to single anyone out, but here's a great example of a wikidot site that appears on google with completely useless descriptions of its pages: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:http://zeroinfluence.wikidot.com/
Google gave up and just put a tag cloud as their description for each page. Almost equally useless, some other sites get their navigation bars used as descriptions.
Granted, there are some easy things they could do to get better descriptions, like including the phrase "Zero Influence Wiki is <description>" on their page. But for sub-pages, it usually doesn't make sense to use a phrase like that. That's where meta descriptions come in.
So, when is version 2 coming out?
frogger67 1195458276|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hi Michal,
I too would like to have control over the meta tags in the head section.
I'd like to see it rather sooner than later ;-)
( Hey I can do without WYSIWYG editing, but then I'm probably not joe user out there ;-) )
Best regards, Martin
frogger67 1195459173|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Just wanted to add that the alternative to addding the meta tags to head is to create an url
of the form
http://evdonaucity.wikidot.com/googled999999999999999.html
That currently gets mapped to a 404 at the webserver, not sure which solution is simpler to implement. The meta tag enhancement is not specific to google, so it's probably the preferred way of doing it.
Documentation is here-> Google Webmaster Tools Website Verification Help
religious evolution 1197499919|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
If we could add pages to the server that use a .html extension, this would work. I created the page http://religious-evolution.wikidot.com/google71e404e61f153186-html, which doesn't work because it ends in -html instead of .html. Wikidot could let us create these pages or allow us to add meta tags. Adding meta tags sounds like a better long term solution, because its usefulness is not limited to Google webmaster tools. My site: religious-evolution.wikidot.com
Soop 1208165415|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Ok, I realise I should have searched first - but it seems like quite a few of the more serious among us would like this feature. Any news?
Soop 1208347739|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Is anyone going to respond?!
Helmuti_pdorf 1208351551|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I am not sure if this would help -
but you can always create a html file ( NOT a PAGE!) on your local machine and upload it as a file attached to any local page of your wiki.
And:
you can embedd the link of the file ( button files - info) on any page ( or iframe it )
If you want to run a java or javascript than you should rename it to jvs ( instead of htm or html) .
With google webmaster itself I have no experience.
Could be this is the reason nobody answers you here …?
Soop 1208356977|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
It could be. However I've tried every trick I can think of, and it doesn't work (it has to be in the top level domain, i.e. facts.wikidot.com/thispage.html instead of in a subdirectory)
If I'm honest, I think Wikidot is great, but this and a couple of other limitations do really restrict the usability of my site, and it's of such a nature, that I'm likely to get a huge amount of bounced hits because of it.
If there would be any way to implement this, I'd be over the moon. Even just a control panel option that lets you create one html page of your chioce would be great.
Of course the other thing I realy want is a "random page" button. If it would be feasable, I'd happily write the code myself and submit it?
drewm1980 1209064018|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I'm in the same boat. I can't verify with Google, so I can't tweak how my site is indexed.
BeechHillScience 1215690334|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I would also like to see this functionality added - for regular users of Google, some of the features it offers are extremely useful.
Phil Chett 1215691794|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
BeechHillScience 1215715229|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
sitemaps are useful but you need Google webmaster tools to see the searches against your domain etc.
I'd still like to see the ability to verify (either through meta header tags or a google_random_.html page) added to Wikidot.
Craig Macomber 1215718232|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Me too.
David Marseilles 1215732529|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
me three.
Soop 1215782050|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
me four :'(
The sitemap is great, but it still has the tag cloud as a descriptor. I might just get rid of the tags - but then without the random feature, there's no real viable way of browsing the site.
Slowlearner 1215980723|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I don't want this to turn into an online petition or anything, especially since I am really enjoying the use of this free service however the facility to add meta tags to a page would be great for unlocking the web admin tools and I imagine that it would unlock a few other bits and pieces as well.
..slow