Apparently the man pages for Ubuntu were not to be found on the web to be read in your browser and the man pages website for debian manpages.debian.net cgi generates the pages meaning its not browsable by the search engines, so the chance of running in to them if you don’t know the exact address are next to none.

So.. i downloaded the work done for Ubuntu and adjusted the scripts and appearance to work with Debian, the result can be found here .

Not sure what i’m gonna do with this site but if there seems to be appeal for it then i will keep the site up and maybe extend it a little.

In case anybody has any idea’s on that i’d be glad the hear about it.

I undertand why this could be a useful tool for the search engine and the site to be indexed, but as usual there are no guarantees whatsoever that it actually helps or the mentioned pages will be indexed, but it doesn’t hurt either.

As usual with wordpress, if a feature isn’t in the default installation there is a handy dandy plugin available that will do all the work for you so there is no need to learn anything about .xml or the sitemap specification or anything.

I used the Google XML Sitemaps plugin and pretty much went for the defaults. it automatically refreshes the sitemap everytime you make changes to the site and notifies the search engines, only yahoo requires you to register and apply for an application key.

the sitemap will be placed in the root of your site like this http://www.songshu.org/sitemap.xml and i’m not sure if the search engines automatically look for it, at least google, yahoo and msn have an option for you to specify the location before they actually use it i think.

So sign up with https://developer.yahoo.com and https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and specify the location for them

You can change the default in the “permalinks” settings to any custom structure you like, as usual you have as many options as opinions on which structure is best. Google away to find out for yourself but i decided to simply go for a custom structure like this /index.php/%postname%

Not sure if this is the best but i kind of like the result, it makes the links to your pages look like this http://www.songshu.org/index.php/change-the-links-to-something-readable

Basically all content are posts instead of pages, that way we will have a front page with rotating articles and loads of tekst to index, the menu above are the categories these posts are assigned to.

For the moment i will go with the default lay out, but i might tweak it some more later if i think it will do some good.

What happened?

I actually started a few years ago to keep my notes on installing servers and such on www.songshu.org in a how-to style just to make sure that if i needed to do some maintenance later or install the same thing i would remember how in the hell i did it.

Initially i kept everything on a dokuwiki installation (absolutely recommendable by the way) and i gathered quite some content over the years keeping notes. The first time i screwed up this site i had to figure out how to make a somewhat representable web site for a friend of mine so i decided to install a wordpress installation on this domain and fiddle around getting to know how to customize some themes and plugins and stuff.

Now i know a bit more on how to mold a wordpress to my liking  and i have another website to build i decided to use this domain as yet another testing ground to figure out how to make the most out of page ranking and such and what i can do to SEO this site and see how much visitors i can actually get, which will start out horribly since all of the dead links to this domain ;) . I will blog about this endeavor it in a utmost boring fashion as like every other blog on this subject.

p.s.

is it just me or is there something nauseant about all these SEO blogs? could be the allknowing attitude of the self aclaimed “experts” that usually populate the comment sections, counting on you though