Bill Herndon Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 Simple SEO has been around for over 7 years now, and in that time a lot has changed in TNG, the Mod Manager, and PHP. The experience of moving from TNG 13 to TNG 14 has demonstrated that some of the Mod coding approaches I used when Simple SEO was introduced are no longer sustainable. Furthermore, mod conflicts are getting more and more difficult to solve or work around. Accordingly, I've decided that Simple SEO needs a 'clean' re-implementation, and I'm going to start that sooner rather than later to try and get a sustainable package prepared before the next TNG update. With that in mind, I'd like to solicit feature and language suggestions for V8, the next release. If you're not yet using TNG 14...don't worry. I will back-port V8 to TNG 13 and perhaps to TNG 12. Keep in mind, though, that the original purpose of Simple SEO was to make HTML header changes and page simplifications (titles, sub-headers, ...) that improve search-engine optimization. So I'll be looking at suggestions with that in mind. Suggestions for additional language localization can be anything you like. (Oh...and...I don't have any ideas regarding how to improve SEO for newly "AI enabled" engines like Bing, so don't ask. :- ) I was a cybersecurity guy in my career not a artificial intelligence guy.) All suggestions are appreciated! Thanks, Bill Herndon Lindell-Herndon Genealogy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Herndon Posted February 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 [Bump] Hoping to generate some discussion here. An off-list discussion regarding Simple SEO has brought up a couple of ideas. The first has to do with correcting an instance where Simple SEO deviates from what unmodified TNG does with BEF and AFT dates. One suggestion has been to offer three options for date formats, the existing long format, the existing short format, and a 'minimal' format that is just the year. A second discussion has to do with how to, or even if it would be advisable to, have Simple SEO try to optimize HTTP protocol response fields. For example the 'last-modified' value could be changed to try and get more frequent crawler coverage. The issue here is that Google claims to ignore that value...probably because manipulation of the last-modified value was a very common method of gaming search engine ranking algorithms. (In fact, nobody really bother's anymore with 'last-modified' because of past abuse.) But trying to get more frequent crawler coverage is a laudable idea, and suggestions would be very welcome. Bill Herndon Lindell-Herndon Genealogy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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