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Subject: Re: [proposed] remove docs/1.3/
From: Rich Bowen <rbowen () rcbowen ! com>
Date: 2012-02-28 14:57:34
Message-ID: C6C09D0D-FEE7-4A0E-90B4-38A2DBC25EA0 () rcbowen ! com
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On Feb 26, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
> > We're already using the
> >
> > <link rel="canonical" href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/"/>
> >
> > to tell Google not to index the pages, although that's not (yet) on all of the \
> > 1.3 doc pages - Unfortunately that's something of a manual process due to the \
> > fact that the 1.3 docs are in HTML, not generated, and that not every page in the \
> > 1.3 docs has an exact corollary in the /current/ docs.
>
> WTF?
>
> That's what robots.txt is for! Surely we can use that to stop indexing 2.0
> as well as 1.3? Maybe even 2.2 once 2.4 is windows-ready and in the distros?
The rel canonical thing is a way to actively update the Google index for a particular \
page and search term, and has been very effective in updating certain searches. For \
example, searching Google for "rewriterule" has long given the 1.3 Rewrite Guide, but \
within 24 hours of adding a rel canonical tag, it started pointing to the 2.2 \
mod_rewrite docs as the top hit.
--
Rich Bowen
rbowen@rcbowen.com :: @rbowen
rbowen@apache.org
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Nick Kew wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote \
type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; \
font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: \
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: \
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"><div><blockquote type="cite">We're already using the<span \
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote \
type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><link rel="canonical" \
href="<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/</a>"/><span \
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote \
type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to tell Google not to index the \
pages, although that's not (yet) on all of the 1.3 doc pages - Unfortunately that's \
something of a manual process due to the fact that the 1.3 docs are in HTML, not \
generated, and that not every page in the 1.3 docs has an exact corollary in the \
/current/ docs.<br></blockquote><br>WTF?<br><br>That's what robots.txt is for! \
Surely we can use that to stop indexing 2.0<span \
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>as well as 1.3? Maybe even 2.2 \
once 2.4 is windows-ready and in the \
distros?</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>The rel canonical thing is a way to \
actively update the Google index for a particular page and search term, and has been \
very effective in updating certain searches. For example, searching Google for \
"rewriterule" has long given the 1.3 Rewrite Guide, but within 24 hours of adding a \
rel canonical tag, it started pointing to the 2.2 mod_rewrite docs as the top \
hit.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" \
style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Inconsolata; \
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: \
normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; \
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; \
-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" \
style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Inconsolata; \
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: \
normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; \
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; \
-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: \
break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; \
">--<br>Rich Bowen<br><a href="mailto:rbowen@rcbowen.com">rbowen@rcbowen.com</a> :: \
@rbowen<br><a href="mailto:rbowen@apache.org">rbowen@apache.org</a><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></span></span>
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