Cleaning up pages after a content scrape

After a content scrape, the scraped content must be reviewed and edited.

On this page:

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 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 may not make sense in the new context and is bad for SEO.

Read Optimising page title, summary and meta tags for search engines guide.

Main content

Table of contents

Delete and table of content links or text brough over in the scrape as they won't work. If you would like to add a new table of contents read How to display a table of contents.

Links

Always 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 Add a hyperlink to a webpage, email address or phone number guide.

Images and documents 

If your content contains images or documents, add them to the media library. Then you can embed them using the Media icon in the basic text component.

You must recreate in-text hyperlinks to media items as embedded media items.

Read Add a document guide.

Read Add an image guide.

Style guide

The Victorian Government uses the:

• Australian Government Style Manual for decisions about grammar, usage, structure and referencing 

• 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 consistent capitalisation.

• Use en dashes – 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 in the Authoring information dropdown to the right of the page will 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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