[Request] SEO

[mradamcox]

Describe the feature or enhancement you're looking for No real effort has ever been made for SEO, and people have expressed regret they didn't find this site sooner when planning for Sanborn map research projects. A basic SEO checklist should be sought out and applied as well as possible, a "best first effort".

After some research on this, here's what I've come up with as the most important tasks:

• [x] Move the index page back to HTML, currently it's just a Svelte component and I don't think that is very good for crawlers
  • [ ] This should really include a redesign/reconfiguration of the home page with a few of these in mind: add call to action, add direct links to popular maps, link to news/latest news
• [x] Move the navbar back to HTML, same reason as above
• [ ] Similarly it would be good to bring all <h1> elements on pages out of Svelte components and back into templates
• [x] Generate a sitemap.xml view
• [ ] Add more <meta> tags to the header ref1 ref2
  • [ ] put description and keyword tags into blocks so they can be changed in templates with view context

[rchampine]

Do you think it would help if UR DSL made something that linked to OIM? We could potentially make a page that outlines what we're working on our site: https://dsl.richmond.edu/

[mradamcox]

Oh, that would be fantastic.

[rchampine]

Cool — it can't be top priority for us but I'll pitch it to the DSL group. With the number inquiries we get about our project I think it would be helpful for us too.