User:Mu301/Learning blog/2019-12

Google Search Console update
In a prior post I discussed Google Analytics as part of the Google/Search and Wikiversity project that I'm interested in. The following graph predicted that the number of indexed pages would approach zero by the end of 2018.



Today I revisited the Analytics console and discovered that Google claims it is only indexing 83 pages. It is excluding 82.4k which includes 52k redirects, 9k NOINDEX, and 7k blocked by robots.txt. These results are very confusing. There are a total of 193k pages including 27k resources. The list of indexed pages is also very odd. I don't understand what is going on here.

--mikeu talk 20:42, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Rainwater collection
Rainwater harvesting is consistently among the most requested pages at Wikiversity. From July through November of this year the page has been getting 20,000 to 30.000 views per month. The project was created by WinonaWiki from June to November 2015 and has 43 subpages.



The subject is increasingly important for sustainability and as an adaptation to climate change. This is one of the finest resources that I've found on wikiversity. It is also notable for its international focus.

I've created a redirect from rainwater collection to the harvesting page. Collection gets about 1/4 the search traffic. It is probably a good idea to explicitly link the two as collection is as popular as harvesting in the United States.

--mikeu talk 19:45, 3 December 2019 (UTC)