SEO: individualized content previews for DVC pages (and maybe /doc pages)

[jorgeorpinel]

Currently preview of contents for all DVC pages has the same info:

Maybe it could have the actual title of each page at least? Ideally also a short excerpt of the beginning of the page contents.

[shcheklein]

👍 Any ideas how should we customize it depending on a link? The most obvious one - title. Not sure about snippet and image.

[jorgeorpinel]

Yeah well we have a markdown parses so other than a custom title such as Data Registry | Use Cases | DVC, the text preview could be the first paragraph from the md contents (After H1), truncated to some length.

[shcheklein]

I wonder if we can use an image to put that custom text + logo. And use generic text - so that users always see what DVC is.

[jorgeorpinel]

As for research, these excerpts at least in Slack come from the <meta name="description" tag. I guess we could find out what other metadata Google, Bing, etc pay attention to. Maybe <meta name="keywords"? I understand that's mostly ignored by search engines now a days (they have algorithms to extract keywords from the actual contents instead).

[jorgeorpinel]

can use an image to put that custom text + logo

This is probably possible on more advanced engines, but image rendered text wouldn't help search result ranking.

[shcheklein]

Yeah, probably I don't care that much about SEO per se (they are good at extracting information), more about user experience when you send a link, share a link.

[jorgeorpinel]

There's <meta name="thumbnail", or more advanced PageMaps for G we can try. Not sure this helps previews in messaging apps like Slack, etc. though. They probably only check basic meta tags.