As product owner, I expect the web application to be easily searched by Google and other Search Engines to improve exposure and finding by educators - nathandh/mywebclass-simulation GitHub Wiki

As a product owner, I expect the web application to be easily searched by Google and other Search Engines to improve exposure and finding by educators.

Acceptance Criteria: The site should have a robots.txt file and have some optimizations to be crawled by sites such as Google.

Story Point: 11

Priority: Medium

List Tasks related to this Story

1. Create Robots.txt File
2. Research and implement changes to improve the website's search engine optimization (SEO) to increase the visibility of the website on search engines like Google.
3. Create and submit a sitemap to help search engines crawl and index the website

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Task Title: Create a robots.txt file so that site can be indexed properly in Search Engines such as Google.

User Story(s):

As a product owner, I expect the web application to be easily searched by Google and other Search Engines to improve exposure and finding by educators.

Description: Add a basic setup for crawling by Search Engines.

Effort Estimate: 1/2 Sprint (1 week).

Assigned To: jv494

T-Shirt Size: 5 (Medium)

Priority: Medium

Status: Done

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Task title: Research and implement changes to improve the website's search engine optimization (SEO) to increase the visibility of the website on search engines like Google.

User Story:

As a product owner, I expect the web application to be easily searched by Google and other Search Engines to improve exposure and finding by educators.

Description: Conduct research to identify current best practices for SEO and implement changes to improve the website's ranking on search engines.

Acceptance criteria: Conduct SEO research and implement changes to improve website ranking on search engines, monitor website traffic and ranking for improvement.

Dependencies: None

Effort Estimate: 20 hours

Assigned To: ndh2, jv494, dl349

T-Shirt Size: 5 (Medium)

Priority: Medium

Status: In progress

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Task Title: Create and submit a sitemap to help search engines crawl and index the website

User Story: As a product owner, I expect the web application to be easily searched by Google and other Search Engines to improve exposure and finding by educators.

Description: Effective sitemaps are associated with improved search engine ranking

Effort Estimate: 6 hours

Assigned To: jv494

T-Shirt Size: 1 (Tiny)

Priority: Moderate

Status: Done