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>