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TLDR: Keywords serve an important purpose in modern search, especially when dealing with technical content where synonyms are prevalent.I was always taught to have syntactical homology between sentences in technical writing. For example, if I refer to a process as characterization in one sentence, I should not refer to the same process as analysis later in the document. This sort of homology leads to a more clear document and lowers reader's work to figure out what had been done or how something was done. However, referring to the process as "analysis" isn't wrong it's just not homologous with the document. So if someone Google's "analysis" then my document doesn't show up even though it is about that exact process. Further, Google gives priority to keywords and phrases based off of frequency of occurrence in the document as well as by proximity to main headers. Thus, just by including a sentence with the googled words doesn't mean it will be indexed correctly. The inclusion of keywords allows for the parsing of synonyms, and importance of words without having to create gimmicky sentences early in paragraphs. Ultimately, you are right, I could spend time using all the synonyms for my program in the opening few sentences below class 2 headers so that search engines would give them a high priority. However, the cost would be clarity, ease of reading/understanding, and as compared to site that do allow for keywords, a lower priority placed in search engines for results from ImageJ.net pages. Generally, these detracters won't matter that much for plug-ins that don't have commercial analogs but for those plugins that are meant to be a free alternative to commercial software this could lead to the plugin not being found/used.Also, from a site administrator point of view: enabling keywords will increase traffic to ImageJ because Google/Bing/Yahoo preferentially search keywords and prioritizes their value over in-line text. More eyes equals more people helped, equals more science being done, equals (hopefully) better science being done. I feel as though if you are trying to reach the average Biologist who doesn't know how to search the myriad of plugins available for ImageJ, you are much more likely to hook them by bringing them immediately (as the first link in their search engine search) to the page that they are looking for. Rather than making them click on the top 6 links and sort through the content. Ultimately, enabling keywords in ImageJ.net would allow for faster and more accurate searches both within the site and within search engines, so I feel as though the time it takes to insert the necessary .php would be worth it.I believe the process isn't too time/work intensive on your end, as the instructions here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MetaKeywordsTag appear to be straightforward. I could be wrong, I've never done anything like that. And if I am, let me know and I'll drop it. I was just curious what the rational was to not enable keywords.Nathan
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:46:22 -0600
> From:
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> Subject: Re: Adding Keyword metadata to ImageJ.net site
> To:
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> Hi Nathan,
>
> > I was wondering how to add meta keyword tags to my page so that
> > Google/Bing/etc. can find my page when people do general searches for
> > my plugin's function?
>
> Isn't it enough to just describe your plugin's function using those
> keywords, such that indexing engines pick up on those words?
>
> You can also add categories, like:
>
> [[Category:Segmentation]]
>
> at the bottom of the page, to categorize your plugin. And feel free to make
> up new categories if you think they are generally useful.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Nathan Hotaling <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > I'm relatively new to ImageJ plugin creation but I am trying to create a
> > page for my plugin. I was wondering how to add meta keyword tags to my
> > page so that Google/Bing/etc. can find my page when people do general
> > searches for my plugin's function?
> >
> >
> >
> > I've already tried the below (from
> >
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MetaKeywordsTag)
> >
> >
> > <meta name="keywords" content="List, Keywords" />
> >
> > and
> >
> > <metakey>ListOfKeywords</metakey>
> >
> >
> >
> > Neither add keywords.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nathan
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