Too many times search results are not showing or rank properly relevant information for our users looking for an answer (support, doc or else). There are worst cases. Sometimes the top results will display a "maintenance" page, a template or a page with information for the technical team or reused somewhere else (file or tracker item) way before the relevant content. Sometimes outdated page or a page about a feature removed will be available way before its replacement, a new (or revamped) and used feature. This contribute to confusion and gives Tiki a bad image.

Not found first page samples:

• Search on Google for "Tiki SEFurl": The result will show on second position https://doc.tiki.org/Search-Engine-Friendly-URL that is really not giving anymore information than what the admin can see from the control panel but not (on the first page) the "real" documentation page: https://doc.tiki.org/Apache-Clean-URLs
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Maintenance/Template page sample:

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Outdated/removed page sample:

• Search on Google for "Tiki SEFurl": The first result is a very outdated (harmful) community page, https://tiki.org/SEFURLs
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If we improve globally for such page it will have an impact on other page as Tiki has many global parameters.
Plus it may help us to promote Tiki page guideline:

• Choose a title for the page
• Format we use (heading, list, etc)
• Important content to use (there is a solution)
• Important content NOT to use (I’m stuck, it will be fix later, etc)
• Links and alias usage
• Metatags or tags usage

Live

• @Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist
• Please join the effort!

Let’s try to use real life cases and understand why a page is not valued as top result like we expect it would.

• Having "users" relevant Doc page found properly
• Having secondary or not "users" relevant page hidden or far from the top results
• Having outdated and harming page "hidden" (private usage)

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• Search index
• ElasticSearch (or replacement) / Kibana
• Federated Search

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