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<div class="headings group"> <ul class="a11y skip"> <li><a href="#dokuwiki__content">skip to content</a></li> </ul> <h1 class="logo"><a href="/start" accesskey="h" title="Home [h]"><img src="/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/logo.png" width="64" height="64" alt="" /><span>DokuWiki</span></a></h1> <p class="claim">It's better when it's simple</p> </div> <div class="tools group">  <div id="dokuwiki__usertools"> <h3 class="a11y">User Tools</h3> <ul> <li class="action login"><a href="/seo?do=login&sectok=" title="Log In" rel="nofollow"><span>Log In</span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M10 17.25V14H3v-4h7V6.75L15.25 12 10 17.25M8 2h9a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v16a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8a2 2 0 0 1-2-2v-4h2v4h9V4H8v4H6V4a2 2 0 0 1 2-2z"/></svg></a></li> </ul> </div>  <div id="dokuwiki__sitetools"> <h3 class="a11y">Site Tools</h3> <form action="/start" method="get" role="search" class="search doku_form" id="dw__search" accept-charset="utf-8"><input type="hidden" 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href="/ro:seo">Română (ro)</a></li><li class="a"><a class="wikilink1" title="Русский" href="/ru:seo">Русский (ru)</a></li><li class="a"><a class="wikilink2" title="Српски Језик" href="/sr:seo">Српски Језик (sr)</a></li><li class="a"><a class="wikilink2" title="Svenska" href="/sv:seo">Svenska (sv)</a></li><li class="a"><a class="wikilink2" title="ไทย" href="/th:seo">ไทย (th)</a></li><li class="a"><a class="wikilink2" title="Українська" href="/uk:seo">Українська (uk)</a></li><li class="a"><a class="wikilink1" title="中文" href="/zh:seo">中文 (zh)</a></li><li class="a"><a class="wikilink2" title="繁體中文" href="/zh-tw:seo">繁體中文 (zh-tw)</a></li></ul></div> <p> <strong>Learn about DokuWiki</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/features" class="wikilink1" title="features" data-wiki-id="features">Features</a> & <a href="/blogroll" class="wikilink1" title="blogroll" data-wiki-id="blogroll">reviews</a> </div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/install" class="wikilink1" title="install" data-wiki-id="install">Installation guide</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/manual" class="wikilink1" title="manual" data-wiki-id="manual">User manual</a> & <a href="/wiki:syntax" class="wikilink1" title="wiki:syntax" data-wiki-id="wiki:syntax">syntax</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/changes" class="wikilink1" title="changes" data-wiki-id="changes">Release notes</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/faq" class="wikilink1" title="faq" data-wiki-id="faq">FAQ</a></div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Advanced Use</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/extensions" class="wikilink1" title="extensions" data-wiki-id="extensions">Extensions</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/development" class="wikilink1" title="development" data-wiki-id="development">Development manual</a></div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Corporate Use</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/faq:support" class="wikilink1" title="faq:support" data-wiki-id="faq:support">Get support</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/donate" class="wikilink1" title="donate" data-wiki-id="donate">Donations</a></div> </li> </ul> <p> <strong>Our Community</strong> </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/teams:getting_involved" class="wikilink1" title="teams:getting_involved" data-wiki-id="teams:getting_involved">Get involved</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/dokuinstall" class="wikilink1" title="dokuinstall" data-wiki-id="dokuinstall">Users</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="http://forum.dokuwiki.org" class="urlextern" title="http://forum.dokuwiki.org">User forum</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/mailinglist" class="wikilink1" title="mailinglist" data-wiki-id="mailinglist">Development mailinglist</a></div> </li> </ul> <hr /> <p> Follow us on <a href="https://phpc.social/@dokuwiki" class="urlextern" title="https://phpc.social/@dokuwiki">Mastodon</a> and other <a href="/social" class="wikilink1" title="social" data-wiki-id="social">social networks</a>. </p> <p> <a href="/privacy" class="wikilink1" title="privacy" data-wiki-id="privacy">Our Privacy Policy</a> </p> </div></div> </div></nav>  <main id="dokuwiki__content"><div class="pad group"> <div class="pageId"><span>seo</span></div> <div class="page group">   <div id="dw__toc" class="dw__toc"> <h3 class="toggle">Table of Contents</h3> <div> <ul class="toc"> <li class="level1"><div class="li"><a href="#dokuwiki_and_search_engine_optimization_seo">DokuWiki and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</a></div> <ul class="toc"> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#content">Content</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#meta_headers">Meta Headers</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#duplicate_content">Duplicate Content</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#wiki_spam">Wiki Spam</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#urls">URLs</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#non-existing_pages">Non-existing Pages</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#xml_sitemap">XML Sitemap</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#clean_php_session_id">Clean PHP Session ID</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#more_information">More Information</a></div></li> </ul></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="dokuwiki_and_search_engine_optimization_seo">DokuWiki and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is some kind of mystery. Because the big search engines don't reveal their complete methods of spidering and ranking it is always some guesswork to determine what's right and what's not. In general SEO boils down to tuning three things: <em>content</em>, <em>meta headers</em> and <em>URLs</em>. This document should give you some ideas how DokuWiki works in these areas and what additional SEO methods are available. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_1"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[DokuWiki and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="dokuwiki_and_search_engine_optimization_seo" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="1-498" /><button type="submit" title="DokuWiki and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit2" id="content">Content</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> DokuWiki tries to produce semantically correct and valid XHTML. This means the structure of a document is easy to analyze by an automatic spider. </p> <p> No matter how good the produced <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> is, SEO is very dependent on a page's source. You should try to markup your document in a logical way. For example use headlines in descending order beginning with a level 1 headline. Use headlines for headers (not a bold paragraph), use lists for things that are a list and so forth. This is also important as DokuWiki might use the first level 1 headline as the page title (see next section). </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_2"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Content] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="content" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="499-1098" /><button type="submit" title="Content">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit3" id="meta_headers">Meta Headers</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> DokuWiki creates all relevant headers to identify the page content (doctype, encoding, language). Other headers and metadata, such as keywords, <a href="http://ogp.me/" class="urlextern" title="http://ogp.me/">OpenGraph</a>, <a href="http://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards" class="urlextern" title="http://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards">Twitter cards</a> and description can be created using the <a href="/plugin:keywords" class="wikilink1" title="plugin:keywords" data-wiki-id="plugin:keywords">keywords</a>, <a href="/plugin:socialcards" class="wikilink1" title="plugin:socialcards" data-wiki-id="plugin:socialcards">socialcards</a> and <a href="/plugin:description" class="wikilink1" title="plugin:description" data-wiki-id="plugin:description">description</a> plugins. The keywords header does not have a direct effect on search engine ranking: </p> <blockquote><div class="no"> You're right in that we generally ignore the contents of the “keywords” meta tag. As with other possible meta tags, feel free to place it on your pages if you can use it for other purposes - it won't count against you.<br/> <br/> <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/answering-more-popular-picks-meta-tags.html#c7699172136299853362" class="urlextern" title="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/answering-more-popular-picks-meta-tags.html#c7699172136299853362">Google Webmaster Central</a></div></blockquote> <p> The same applies to the description. However, under some circumstances, the search engine is not able to create a meaningful description for the search result pages (called SERPs). In this case, providing a description has an indirect value: it helps the search engine user to select the right (in this case your) result. In other words, a good description helps to increase the site conversion in the SERPs<sup><a href="#fn__1" id="fnt__1" class="fn_top">1)</a></sup>. The <a href="/plugin:description" class="wikilink1" title="plugin:description" data-wiki-id="plugin:description">description</a> plugin adds such a description and is highly recommended from an SEO perspective. One such scenario is the use of interactive content and low textual content. </p> <p> Also, including keywords in the page has no negative effect and might be of advantage when using other tools and services (for example social bookmarking). In some cases, these services use the keywords from the meta header to create bookmarks and provide other services. Keywords can be manually defined per page using the <a href="/plugin:keywords" class="wikilink1" title="plugin:keywords" data-wiki-id="plugin:keywords">keywords</a> plugin. </p> <p> By default DokuWiki uses the <a href="/pagename" class="wikilink1" title="pagename" data-wiki-id="pagename">pagename</a> in the <em>title</em> element. You may want to use the first level 1 header instead by enabling the <a href="/config:useheading" class="wikilink1" title="config:useheading" data-wiki-id="config:useheading">useheading</a> option (you can also <a href="/tips:underscores" class="wikilink1" title="tips:underscores" data-wiki-id="tips:underscores">remove underscores in different way</a>). This has the advantage that your title (which is displayed in the SERPs) becomes more descriptive and you have a better influence about the keywords in the title. Also it allows you to have different keywords in the <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> (which is influenced by the <a href="/pagename" class="wikilink1" title="pagename" data-wiki-id="pagename">pagename</a>) and the title; both are an important factor in <a href="http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo" class="urlextern" title="http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo">onpage-SEO</a>. </p> <p> From an SEO perspective, you should keep the name of the Wiki short (in the case of this wiki: [DokuWiki]) as the title is repeated in the page title on all pages. That way, your title is focused on the page keywords in the beginning of the title (here: “<em class="u">seo</em> [DokuWiki]”), indicating to the search engine the actual content of the page. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_3"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Meta Headers] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="meta_headers" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="1099-3915" /><button type="submit" title="Meta Headers">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit4" id="duplicate_content">Duplicate Content</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Duplicate content is prevented by DokuWiki by specifying the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html" class="urlextern" title="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html">canonical url</a> which is enabled in the DokuWiki configuration by default. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_4"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Duplicate Content] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="duplicate_content" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="3916-4163" /><button type="submit" title="Duplicate Content">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit5" id="wiki_spam">Wiki Spam</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> DokuWiki tries to <a href="/antispam" class="wikilink1" title="antispam" data-wiki-id="antispam">fight wiki spam</a> by several ways. One of them is called <a href="/config:indexdelay" class="wikilink1" title="config:indexdelay" data-wiki-id="config:indexdelay">delayed indexing</a> and directly influences how search engines spider your page. When enabled it will set the <em>robots</em> meta header accordingly to the age of a page. Only pages which were not edited for a certain time (default: 5 days) will be allowed for spidering. The idea is that the community will have removed any spam in this time. This means only a page which is considered as good by the wiki users will be added by search engines. If you have a quick community (eg. at this wiki spam usually never lasts longer than a day) or have a closed user group you may want to lower the <a href="/config:indexdelay" class="wikilink1" title="config:indexdelay" data-wiki-id="config:indexdelay">indexdelay</a> option or even set it to 0 for disabling delayed indexing. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_5"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Wiki Spam] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="wiki_spam" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="4164-4961" /><button type="submit" title="Wiki Spam">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit6" id="urls">URLs</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> DokuWiki normally uses URLs in the form of http://example.com/doku.php?id=page. Many search engines recognize this as a dynamic <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> and change their spidering behaviour <sup><a href="#fn__2" id="fnt__2" class="fn_top">2)</a></sup> accordingly. Google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22doku.php%3Fid%3D%22" class="interwiki iw_google" title="https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22doku.php%3Fid%3D%22">does spider</a> such URLs but <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html">recommends</a> to keep the numbers of used parameters low. </p> <p> To improve the readability and help other search engines with your wiki, DokuWiki comes with a config option for two different methods of <a href="/rewrite" class="wikilink1" title="rewrite" data-wiki-id="rewrite">URL rewriting</a> to produce nice URLs. </p> <p> Adding the <a href="/config:useslash" class="wikilink1" title="config:useslash" data-wiki-id="config:useslash">useslash</a> option helps to increase your ranking further. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_6"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[URLs] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="urls" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="4962-5648" /><button type="submit" title="URLs">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit7" id="non-existing_pages">Non-existing Pages</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> When a page does not exist, DokuWiki will issue a <code>200 OK</code> HTTP response. In a wiki this is a wanted behaviour. However, it is speculated that search engines may perceive it as indicative of a link farm. You can enable <a href="/config:send404" class="wikilink1" title="config:send404" data-wiki-id="config:send404">send404</a> to make DokuWiki respond with <code>404 Not Found</code> to requests for non-existing pages. </p> <p> You should use a plugin such as <a href="/plugin:goto" class="wikilink1" title="plugin:goto" data-wiki-id="plugin:goto">goto</a> to redirect pages moved within your Wiki. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_7"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Non-existing Pages] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="non-existing_pages" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="5649-6096" /><button type="submit" title="Non-existing Pages">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit8" id="xml_sitemap">XML Sitemap</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Several big search engine providers like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft allow you to submit whole site structures to their search engines through the <a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.sitemaps.org/">XML Sitemap</a> service. DokuWiki can automatically create an XML sitemap containing all of your wiki pages. See <a href="/sitemap" class="wikilink1" title="sitemap" data-wiki-id="sitemap">sitemap</a> for more info. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_8"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[XML Sitemap] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="xml_sitemap" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="6097-6435" /><button type="submit" title="XML Sitemap">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit9" id="clean_php_session_id">Clean PHP Session ID</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> On some PHP installations the PHP Session ID is appended to each <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> of your wiki. This is not desirable in terms of SEO. Please refer to the <a href="/rewrite#clean_php_session_id" class="wikilink1" title="rewrite" data-wiki-id="rewrite">rewrite page</a> for a solution. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_9"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Clean PHP Session ID] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="clean_php_session_id" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="6436-6674" /><button type="submit" title="Clean PHP Session ID">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit10" id="more_information">More Information</h2> <div class="level2"> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> A <a href="http://www.abcseo.com/blog/dokuwiki-vs-pmwiki" class="urlextern" title="http://www.abcseo.com/blog/dokuwiki-vs-pmwiki">comparison of DokuWiki and PmWiki</a> on SEO capabilities (with DokuWiki being the winner) <img src="/lib/images/smileys/fixme.svg" class="icon smiley" alt="FIXME" /></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> The SEO Wiki provides a <a href="https://en.nichesite.org/index.php/Search_Engine_Optimization_(SEO)" class="urlextern" title="https://en.nichesite.org/index.php/Search_Engine_Optimization_(SEO)">description for a SEO optimized DokuWiki installation</a> <img src="/lib/images/smileys/fixme.svg" class="icon smiley" alt="FIXME" /></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/plugins?plugintag=seo#extension__table" class="wikilink1" title="plugins" data-wiki-id="plugins">Plugins tagged with seo</a></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_10"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/seo"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1728315931" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[More Information] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="more_information" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="6675-" /><button type="submit" title="More Information">Edit</button></div></form></div><div class="footnotes"> <div class="fn"><sup><a href="#fnt__1" id="fn__1" class="fn_bot">1)</a></sup> <div class="content">SEO Wiki: “SEO Optimization using <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> Meta Tags,” <a href="http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo/meta_information" class="urlextern" title="http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo/meta_information">http://en.seowiki.info/onpage_seo/meta_information</a></div></div> <div class="fn"><sup><a href="#fnt__2" id="fn__2" class="fn_bot">2)</a></sup> <div class="content">how is a cause for a lot speculation</div></div> </div>  </div> 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