Search Engine Indexing and Search

[hemebond]

• https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/get-started
  Basics of indexing and helping search engine bots
• https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data
  Structured data to show results and actions directly in the Google search results.
• https://schema.org/docs/schemas.html
  Schema for structured data.
• https://ogp.me/
• https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

For search, we can just embed a search box into the page that gets redirected to DuckDuckGo and prefixed with site:quaddicted.com, e.g., https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aquaddicted.com+mysearchterm

[SpiritQuaddicted]

Currently Quaddicted uses schema.org's CreativeWork type with name and aggregateRating

<div id="content" class="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">
...
<h2 class="title" itemprop="name">ad_heresp1.zip - Oxyblack Fortress</h2>
...
<div itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating"><strong>User Rating: </strong><ul class="star-rating">
<li class="current-rating" id="current-rating" style="width: 120px">Currently: 4.8/5 Stars.</li>
<li><a href="javascript:rateImg(1,'ad_heresp1')" title="1 star out of 5" class="one-star">1</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:rateImg(2,'ad_heresp1')" title="2 stars out of 5" class="two-stars">2</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:rateImg(3,'ad_heresp1')" title="3 stars out of 5" class="three-stars">3</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:rateImg(4,'ad_heresp1')" title="4 stars out of 5" class="four-stars">4</a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:rateImg(5,'ad_heresp1')" title="5 stars out of 5" class="five-stars">5</a></li>
</ul>
<span itemprop="ratingValue">4.8</span>/<span itemprop="bestRating">5</span> with <span itemprop="ratingCount">29</span>...</div>

For search, we can just embed a search box into the page that gets redirected to DuckDuckGo and prefixed with site:quaddicted.com, e.g., https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aquaddicted.com+mysearchterm

No reliance on third-party sites please, privacy is of utmost importance to me! People can use whatever search engine they prefer.

A search built into the site would be great but not that important. If it was made, it could be tailored and much more efficient than any external provider. I would love to play with https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ for example.

[hemebond]

This is mostly to do with searching the forums and other parts of the website, and helping search engines index the data. The packages themselves already have a search and filter when accessed via the website.