After a content scrape copy will need to be reformatted.
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, the scraped content must be reviewed and edited.
On this page:
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Page titles
Your new SDP site joins dozens of sites from other Victorian Government organisations. Because of this, keep your page titles must be specific. Page titles like ‘About us’, ‘Contact us’ or ‘Annual Report 2024/5’ do not work on a website with content from multiple organisations.
Edit yours to make it clear which organisation you’re writing from.
‘Summary’ and ‘Introduction text’ fields
Summary and introduction Introduction text may need to be rewritten after a scrape. The Summary field acts as the meta description that appears in Google search results. The Introduction text field displays to website users under the page title.
If there is no summary text on the original page, the scrape auto-fills the summary field with the first line in the body text. This often doesn’t may not make sense in the new context and is always bad for SEO.
Read our Optimising page title, summary and meta tags for search engines guide.
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Note: using unique summary and introduction copy is much Using different text for the Summary field and Introduction text field is better for SEO than using the same copy exact words for both. |
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Main content
Table of contents
Delete any and table of content links or copy that have come across text brough over in the scrape . These will be broken links. as they won't work. If you would like to add a new table of contents read our Display How to display a table of contents guide.
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Note: Look for other obsolete text , like that no longer functions as intended. For example, ‘open/close all’ prompts that no longer function on vic.gov.au.from accordions. |
Links
Check that links have not been broken during the scrapeAlways check for broken links. If a link leads to another page on vic.gov.au, replace the URL using the internal link system in the CMS.
Read our Add a hyperlink to a webpage, email address or phone number guide.
Images and documents
If there are your content contains images or valid documents in your content documents, add them to the media library and . Then you can embed them using the ‘Media’ Media icon in the basic text component. Hyperlinking documents will create dead links. Read our
You must recreate in-text hyperlinks to media items as embedded media items.
Read Add a document guide.
Read our Add an image guide.
Style guide
The Victorian Government uses the:
the Australian Government Style Manual for decisions about grammar, usage, structure and referencing
the Macquarie Dictionary for spelling (VPS can access this through the Victorian Government Library Service).
For Victorian Government-specific guidance, read the Victorian Government Style guide.
Common style issues
Incorrect style can cause publishing delays. Here are some tips based on common style issues:
Use minimal and uniform caps consistent capitalisation.
Use en dashes instead of hyphens – like this – for parenthesis.
Use numerals for numbers 2 and up.
Get familiar with the 3 types of lists.
Use the % symbol rather than writing 'per cent'.
Don’t use Latin abbreviations such as e.g. or i.e.
Authoring information
During the scrape ‘Authored by’ Authored by in the ‘Authoring information’ Authoring information dropdown to the right of the page will be listed as ‘sdp.devs’. display sdp.devs as the author.
Update the author by typing the name of the key content owner or contact and selecting their CMS user account.
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Accessibility and qualityTo avoid publishing delays, make sure each page meets |
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