Improve the SEO of search.maven.org

[DarthHater]

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• What are you trying to do? The current site is around 7 years old, and it's SEO is about the same age. We'd like to modernize so that people can find it in Google/Bing/etc... a bit easier, and potentially leverage new SEO techniques, etc...

• What feature or behavior is this required for? This is mainly to help people discover the site a bit easier, but also potentially help them solve problems quicker. We don't necessarily need someone to go to search.maven.org to solve the problem, if they can solve it directly on Google/etc...

• How could we solve this issue? (Not knowing is okay!) There are a plethora of ideas. As we create tickets to accomplish this, we can treat this as a bit of an epic, or perhaps create a milestone in GitHub for it.

• Anything else? Not everyone uses Google, even if most people use Google, let's try and remember that and factor in stuff that would help people using Bing, etc...

[ajbrown]

One quick win here would be to make sure to use proper opengraph meta tags, so that links shared in random places have their previews generated correctly.

http://ogp.me/

[DarthHater]

@ajbrown yeah, that would be great. HOWEVER:

• Angular5 (and maybe 6 soon) does all this via javascript, so I think Facebook (and other places that use opengraph) that don't interpret javascript would only ever get the values for the default index.html page

This might be a solution:

• https://prerender.io/ , this can be used as nginx config to prerender pages (like the artifact ones) so that regular normie crawlers can get what they need

I found that via: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45262719/angular-4-update-meta-tags-dynamically-for-facebook-open-graph/48096658?noredirect=1#comment83183467_48096658

We should likely create a specific issue for OpenGraph, as it's probs just one piece of the SEO puzzle