Andrew Boon
Dolphin is quite good as far as SEO is concerned and may easily be adapted to your specific needs.

Dolphin URLs are simple and readable - trust me that /m/ in the URL makes absolutely no difference. Absolutely every public page in Dolphin is easy for SEs to crawl and is linked through a configurable menu that you can control 100%. Also, profiles and blocks that you can add via Builders can create even better cross-linking within the site to make sure all important pages are crawled often.

Now, see more with META tags - those are somewhat less important these days, but are still considered as meat and bone of SEO. They are not. Anyway, there's no hard-rule for creating meta-tags for crowd-sourced site. Unless you feel like going to even page and adding custom tags manually - there's no benefit from "generating" meta tags from the content - SEs do it all by themselves.

What REALLY matters is making sure you've picked a niche of the right size and information on your site is relevant to it.

With that said, we will still look at what can be done in terms of improving Dolphin SEO. Perhaps a 7.0.9.SEO edition is in order. Specific suggestions, anyone?
mscott
Andrew I couldn't disagree more, Dolphin is HORRIBLE in terms of SEO. If you create a Google Webmasters account you can see exactly what Googlebot thinks your site is about.. and with Dolphin it thinks your site is about "search, featured, calendar, tags".. it thinks ALL Dolphin sites are about those same 4 things. Most of my hits come from people searching for something with "calendar" in it.. needless to say none of my sites are about calendars.

If you want suggestions I see more have quite a few:

1. In the admin there should be a section where you can select a page (like the blocks builder) and then add a "description", "title", and "keywords" meta tag for each page. I know "keywords" isn't important anymore but the other two are.

2. There should only be ONE way to access each page. For instance /m/blogs/home and /m/blogs/ should NOT take you to the same page.. google HATES duplicate content and that is what it thinks these are.

3. Alt and title tages for links and images.. they should ALL have them. On photos, videos, sounds they could automatically be the title of the media. That should be easy to do.

4. Sitemap generator - this should be part of Dolphin out of the box.. it is KEY and currently you have to use a mod and even then it's a pain..

There are just a few, but to really bring Dolphin to the top we are going to have to fix this SEO problem.
 
 
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