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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" />
Does anybody read these forums?
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?..
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.
then have patience young grass hopper, i sure the master will get back to you, as soon as he has fried many bigger fish :-)
As regard the Google Analytics Service:
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 ?
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
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
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
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?
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
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
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
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 …?
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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?
I would also like to see this functionality added - for regular users of Google, some of the features it offers are extremely useful.
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.
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.
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