Grants:IdeaLab/Better Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of Wikipedia Pages

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Better Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of Wikipedia Pages

SEO of English Wikipedia is good, but the SEO of Wikipedia in other languages needs improvement.

idea creator• Sunnynitb

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created on05:07, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

The Wikipedia articles in most languages other than English requires some sort of optimization so that people can easily come across them while doing surfing in their respective languages. No doubt the SEO of English Wikipedia is good, but the SEO of Wikipedia in other languages needs improvement.

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Trying to increase the number of Wikipedia visitors in other languages.

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We need to improve the SEO of Wikipedia in other languages, and it can be done in a number of ways by including the proper number of focus keywords in the articles, by having a good meta description, by improving the length of short and incomplete articles, etc. This will certainly increase the number of Wikipedia visitors.

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Increase in the number of Wikipedia results in search engine results. Reduction in short and incomplete articles. Proper translation of articles of English Wikipedia to other languages. Finally, increase in the views of articles.

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I'm just a digital marketing guy.

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• Project manager I'm the creator of this idea, hence, I know what to do next and how to implement this idea. Sunnynitb (talk) 05:13, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

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