394393 - Adding meta tags to Mozilla.com homepage and Firefox homepage

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[David Rolnitzky]

Would like to add the following meta tags to the en-US Mozilla homepage and Firefox download page to help organic search results.

FIREFOX HOMEPAGE (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/):

<meta name="keywords" content="Firefox, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla, Firefox 2, Foxfire, Fire Fox, browser, web browser, internet browser, web, pop-up blocker, internet, speed, secure, customize, online, add-ons, toolbar, fastest, surfing, download" />

<meta name="description" content="The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web." />

MOZILLA HOMEPAGE (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/):

<meta name="keywords" content="Firefox, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Thunderbird 2, Thunderbird email, email, Firefox 2, Foxfire, Fire Fox, browser, web browser, internet browser, web, pop-up blocker, internet, speed, secure, customize, online, add-ons, fastest, download Firefox" />

<meta name="description" content="Mozilla is a global community dedicated to building free, open source products like the award winning Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email software ." />

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

Meta keywords are no longer used by search engines, at least none of the major ones (Google/yahoo/msn). We should also work on better using tags that search engines really use (although we are in rather good shape because our sites are correctly built semantically). <title> and Hx tags are heavily used by google in its indexing and could probably be improved on mozilla.com.

For instance the Firefox page title is 'Firefox - Rediscover the Web', it does not describe what Firefox is nor contain terms probably used by people to search a browser.

Comment 2

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Pascal is right - however, it can't really hurt to add these. Should I go ahead and add them anyhow?

Comment 3

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Isn't there a different queue for these bugs?

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

As I've said before, IT has nothing to do with the content of www.mozilla.com. Please file all requests for changes in content under Websites :: www.mozilla.com. IT's only part in the website is pushing tagged changes live. Everything else except push requests (once something has been tagged) must go through the main webmasters of www.mozilla.com.

Comment 5

[Paul Kim]

Reed: I'll clarify this with my team (which component to file site bugs on). Thanks for your attention to detail. :-)

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Reed: I'll clarify this with my team (which component to file site bugs on).
> Thanks for your attention to detail. :-)

Thank you for clarifying this with your team. :)

Comment 7

[David Rolnitzky]

Sorry about that -- meant to file this in the correct bin, but was on auto-pilot.  Will refile.

Comment 8

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Trunk -- r7169
Production tag -- r7170