The default configuration of DokuWiki is good enough for most uses, but with SEO in mind, it has some poorly chosen configuration options. We're not sure why these settings have been set this way but assume historical reasons (or in other words: backward compability).

Note that this page is part of our article on a SEO optimized DokuWiki.

The following table lists the configuration settings changed from its default values and provides the reasoning behind it. As you can see, the table is quite long, which indicates, that we have changed a lot of options:

work in progress!

Setting	Default Value	SEO Value	Description	Comments
start	start		name of start page	We did not change this value and will not change it in the future due to compability issues. However, you might change it to an important keyword (e.g., seo). That way, you'll get some additional keywords in default urls (instead of http://en.seowiki.info/start you'll get http://en.seowiki.info/seo as inbound links)
title	DokuWiki	SEO Wiki	what to show in the title	Should be a short name that is being displayed in the header of the page (right side) and, more importantly in the title of the page. This value should contain your most important keyword (here: “SEO” and “Wiki”)
template	default	seo	download and extract to lib/tpl	We are currently preparing our SEO optimized template for DokuWiki for your convenience
breadcrumbs	10	0	how many recent visited pages to show	We think that the breadcrumbs are a little complicated, therefore we turned them off
youarehere	0	1	show “You are here” navigation? 0,1	Instead of the breadcrumbs, we turned the hierarchical breadcrumbs on. This shows our visitor the current location within the Wiki.
useheading	0	1	use the first heading in a page as its name	This is an important option for onpage SEO. Turn it on to make sure that the first heading is used as the title of the page. This makes sure that you can better influence what keywords are included in your page title.
refcheck	1	1	check for references before deleting media files
refshow	0	0	how many references should be shown, 5 is a good value
usewordblock	1	1	block spam based on words? 0,1
indexdelay	60*60*24*5		allow indexing after this time (seconds) default is 5 days
relnofollow	1	1	use rel=“nofollow” for external links?
useacl	0	1	Use Access Control Lists to restrict access?
autopasswd	1	0	autogenerate passwords and email them to user
userewrite	0	1	this makes nice URLs: 0: off 1: .htaccess 2: internal
useslash	0	1	use slash instead of colon? only when rewrite is on
usedraft	1	1	automatically save a draft while editing (0,1)
sepchar	_	_	word separator character in page names; may be a letter, a digit, '_', '-', or '.'.
canonical	0	1	Should all URLs use full canonical http://... style?
autoplural	0	1	try (non)plural form of nonexisting files?
cachetime	60*60*24	60*60*24	maximum age for cachefile in seconds (defaults to a day)
subscribers	0	1	enable change notice subscription support
compress	1	1	Strip whitespaces and comments from Styles and JavaScript? 1,0
hidepages			Regexp for pages to be skipped from RSS, Search and Recent Changes
send404	0	1	Send a HTTP 404 status for non existing pages?
sitemap	0	1	Create a google sitemap? How often? In days.
rss_type	rss1	rss1	type of RSS feed to provide, by default: ('rss' - RSS 0.91, 'rss1' - RSS 1.0, 'rss2' - RSS 2.0, 'atom' - Atom 0.3, 'atom1' - Atom 1.0)
rss_linkto	diff	page	what page RSS entries link to: ('diff' - page showing revision differences, 'page' - the revised page itself, 'rev' - page showing all revisions, 'current' - most recent revision of page)
rss_content	abstract	abstract	what to put in the items by deafult?
rss_update	5*60	5*60	Update the RSS feed every n seconds (defaults to 5 minutes)
recent_days	7	7	How many days of recent changes to keep. (days)
rss_show_summary	1	1	Add revision summary to title? 0,1
target:wiki			Set target to use when creating links - leave empty for same window
target:interwiki			Set target to use when creating links - leave empty for same window
target:extern			Set target to use when creating links - leave empty for same window
target:media			Set target to use when creating links - leave empty for same window
target:windows			Set target to use when creating links - leave empty for same window