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David Crossley commented on FOR-1253: ------------------------------------- Consider adding the "link href=... rel=current" to the head of output html for the "past" set of documentation. Here is one discussion of the situation: https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps As an example, see the older versions of Apache HTTP Server Documentation http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ Their mail archives probably have discussion of when they introduced this. Some factors to consider: Should the href be a relative url with a leading slash. Should it be double-slash. Should we utilise the following redirection facility that we already have in place: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/ redirects to the "current" set. http://forrest.apache.org/docs/dev/ redirects to the "in-development" set. Verify the .htaccess file. There is also the documentation for each plugin. > consider using the head/link rel=canonical for non-current sets of docs > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FOR-1253 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1253 > Project: Forrest > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Plugin: internal.dispatcher, Skins (general issues) > Reporter: David Crossley > Fix For: 0.10-dev > > > We have three sets of online documentation: for the current release, for the > past release, and for the in-development set. Search engines need to be > assisted to prefer the current set. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)