Hello Mauricio,

Thanks a lot, I’ve reviewed and merged your changes!

>       - Setup rewrite rule on .htaccess so latest API doc can have always the 
> same URL ( for example https://ignite.apache.org/releases/latest/javadoc/ 
> <https://ignite.apache.org/releases/latest/javadoc/>)  In this case I pointed 
> it to version 1.9.0. This will prevent having to manually change all inbound 
> links every time a new release is done. Also will help search engines to 
> correctly identify the latest documentation that should be listed on results.


Many special thanks for this improvement. I wish we did this earlier.

BTW, what we need to do to update this latest doc reference when a new version 
is rolled out? Could you share the instructions?

—
Denis

> On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Mauricio Stekl <mauri...@gridgain.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Igniters, 
> 
> I am sending a .patch file attached with some changes related to SEO that I 
> have done to Apache Ignite website. 
> 
> Here are some details: 
> 
>       - Setup rewrite rule on .htaccess so latest API doc can have always the 
> same URL ( for example https://ignite.apache.org/releases/latest/javadoc/ 
> <https://ignite.apache.org/releases/latest/javadoc/>)  In this case I pointed 
> it to version 1.9.0. This will prevent having to manually change all inbound 
> links every time a new release is done. Also will help search engines to 
> correctly identify the latest documentation that should be listed on results.
>       - Added NOINDEX meta tag to all API documentation for versions <= 
> 1.8.0. This will help crawlers to give more page authority to latest version 
> of the doc, and will avoid indexing more than 25.000 URLs.
>       - Added canonical url tags and GA tracking code to all .html files for 
> 1.9.0. 
>       - Updated some anchor tags on the homepage which were linking to the 
> features using only the icons and not the feature's title text.
>       - Updated sitemap.xml with 1.9.0 URLs.
>       - Updated the links on navigation so they point to latest version of 
> API documentation.
> 
> 
> I will appreciate if any of the committers could merge this on website’s repo.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any question.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best,
> Mauricio Stekl
> 
> 
> <api-documentation-cleanup.patch.bz2>

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