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Web search engine compatibility

Open astyled opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

I have noticed this a few times when I was searching for some userstyles, and it was recently pointed in #287 in a comment (at the very bottom), that search engines are not able to correctly index USw. This makes it appear very rarely in the results and always broken.

astyled avatar Dec 07 '23 12:12 astyled

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astyled avatar Dec 07 '23 12:12 astyled

Some research:

  • all websites i tried duplicate content in <meta name="description"> and <meta property="og:description">;
  • i think we should only keep USw description (A new free and open-source, community-driven, modern alternative to userstyles.org.) for service pages like home, explore, and have something else for UGC pages like profiles and styles;
  • we should de-markdown descriptions of profiles for the meta tags;
  • we need a description placeholder for cases where there's no or not enough content in profile biography. like Browse {username}'s userstyles at userstyles.world — a new free and open-source, community-driven userstyles repository;
  • something similar may be good for style descriptions. {short description}. Get this userstyle for {category} on userstyles.world.

astyled avatar Jan 02 '24 17:01 astyled