Fix #2619 — promote Nikola in a meta generator tag #2620
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Actually, you don't need Nikola's URL inside |
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It isn’t enough, because the name alone might not drive traffic to us (name is pretty generic, and Google might not help us here) |
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Allow me to disagree so I can explain my reasoning. The
You can read more about it from W3's the meta element page. Also, about traffic...you don't need to worry about it. Here's an excerpt from Nikola's own generated HTML source code: <meta name="author" content="The Nikola Team">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Nikola">
<meta property="og:title" content="Static Site Generator">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://getnikola.com/index.html">
<meta property="og:description" content="Nikola — Static Site Generator
In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.
Get started with Nikola » Learn about Nikola features »
">
<meta property="og:type" content="article">
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2015-07-08T09:39:34Z">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@GetNikola">
</head>As you can see, the |
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But what do you mean with the standard excerpt? It does not say anything about linking. |
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It's not about linking, but about indicating properly what program has been used to generate the current page. Apart from the aforementioned meta tags, inside So, I'm pretty much sure, let alone confident that search engine bots will be able to parse the entire website and attract the appropriate traffic to Nikola. Anyhow, if you think by adding the hyperlink inside content meta tag would help the traffic, by all means use it. |
Signed-off-by: Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
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I think |
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Merging, this goes into v7.8.2 which will be out soon. |
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@Kwpolska I forgot to ask: is this option going to be included in I'm asking because I'm sure some folks will ask in the future how to turn it off, the same way we use Not everyone want to let the public know what set of tools have they used to build their websites. |
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Currently it is enabled by default; the only way to turn it off is to edit the theme resp. create a child theme which doesn't have that meta tag set. |
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That's fine for now, but maybe in the near future we could add this option so we could avoid unnecessary headaches. Other than that, it looks good to me. Well done mate 👍 ! |
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I've created an issue so we won't forget... |
This is #2619. cc @stefanos82.