Improve COL webpage description index by serch engines

[camiplata]

Improve COL webpage description that is been indexed by search engines, rigth now is the COL disclaimer :

related to #1086

[camiplata]

@mdoering I have read the about of COL webpage, I think for this we can re use the "Our Mision" text:

COL brings together information from taxonomists studying every group of organisms to construct an integrated view of currently accepted species across all taxonomic groups. The primary mission of COL is to deliver a freely accessible list of all species and show which species is referenced by any scientific name, but the tools and services offered by COL also enable taxonomists and other stakeholders to publish and revise species lists for any purpose.

[camiplata]

Hi @mdoering @thomasstjerne, is there maybe a way I could help with this? I'm guessing I could update the config file or any other html or md file that is neede to improve the description

[mdoering]

Unless we want the description to render on the home page we want some meta description tag to be present on the home page: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/snippet

Currently it is just this:

    <!-- Begin Jekyll SEO tag v2.8.0 -->
<title>COL | The Catalogue of Life</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Jekyll v4.2.2" />
<meta property="og:title" content="COL" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta name="description" content="The Catalogue of Life" />
<meta property="og:description" content="The Catalogue of Life" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.catalogueoflife.org/" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.catalogueoflife.org/" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="COL" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
<meta property="twitter:title" content="COL" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@catalogueoflife" />
<script type="application/ld+json">
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebSite","description":"The Catalogue of Life","headline":"COL","name":"The Catalogue of Life","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.catalogueoflife.org/images/col_square_logo.jpg"}},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/catalogueoflife","https://www.facebook.com/CatalogueOfLife","https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife"],"url":"https://www.catalogueoflife.org/"}</script>
<!-- End Jekyll SEO tag -->

I forgot how Jeckyl actually works, but I believe the meta tags can be set in the markdown front matter of this file:
https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/portal/blob/master/root/index.md?plain=1

Yes, you can read it here:

The SEO tag will respect the following YAML front matter if included in a post, page, or document:
title - The title of the post, page, or document
description - A short description of the page's content
image - URL to an image associated with the post, page, or document (e.g., /assets/page-pic.jpg)
author - Page-, post-, or document-specific author information (see Advanced usage)
locale - Page-, post-, or document-specific locale information. Takes priority over existing front matter attribute lang.

@camiplata you are more than welcome to play with this and run the portal locally following the readme instructions. You only need Node and npm on your machine to get going.