Stuart Wright
Well-known member
All the forums I've seen have had examples of poorly titled threads.
For example, in a thread asking about a specific Panasonic TV, the OP created a thread with a title of just Panny Telly.
When indexed by Google, the above thread title does not contain the correct make and model of the TV he is asking about and has no useful information about the specific thread contents.
A much better title would be Where can I find the best price for a Panasonic GZ200 OLED TV?
Despite having a 'helper hint' above the thread title in the new thread form on AVForums, folks are still often lazy and colloquial when titling their threads.
Similarly, threads in the Panasonic TV forum, often do not contain the word Panasonic since there is context from the forum it is in. But this, of course, is not carried over to Google search results, where the lack of Panasonic in the title would likely significantly hamper a thread's discovery.
So I think editing thread titles to make them more meaningful - let's call it thread curation - is something that would significantly improve search results.
Does anyone agree with me that thread title curation is something that would (not could) significantly improve discovery of threads via search engines?
And this is an activity which should be considered?
Curating threads manually could potentially take a lot of time. Is there something we could do to automate the process?
Checking for spelling mistakes? Checking for missing relevant words (like Panasonic in the title of threads in the Panasonic forum)?
For example, in a thread asking about a specific Panasonic TV, the OP created a thread with a title of just Panny Telly.
When indexed by Google, the above thread title does not contain the correct make and model of the TV he is asking about and has no useful information about the specific thread contents.
A much better title would be Where can I find the best price for a Panasonic GZ200 OLED TV?
Despite having a 'helper hint' above the thread title in the new thread form on AVForums, folks are still often lazy and colloquial when titling their threads.
Similarly, threads in the Panasonic TV forum, often do not contain the word Panasonic since there is context from the forum it is in. But this, of course, is not carried over to Google search results, where the lack of Panasonic in the title would likely significantly hamper a thread's discovery.
So I think editing thread titles to make them more meaningful - let's call it thread curation - is something that would significantly improve search results.
Does anyone agree with me that thread title curation is something that would (not could) significantly improve discovery of threads via search engines?
And this is an activity which should be considered?
Curating threads manually could potentially take a lot of time. Is there something we could do to automate the process?
Checking for spelling mistakes? Checking for missing relevant words (like Panasonic in the title of threads in the Panasonic forum)?