I just meant that many of the docbook pages (mostly Java related) aren't complete and we don't link to them as prominently, which won't help their chance of being ranked similarly. We also probably aren't helping their cause by having both possible results in the first place.
We don't link directly to the converted FAQ page from the website menu for instance, we link to the wiki export. To get to the docbook based FAQ you have to go through the html or pdf links on the documentation page. The wiki exported FAQ page has TOC heading based internal links to all the answers which also probably aids its chances in the results. The docbook html export currently has pages with filenames based on chapter and section numbers rather than contextual name, making links to them (of which I doubt there are [m]any) contain less information (qpid-java-faq.html vs ch01s02.html in this specific case). These kind of things will contribute to differing results (searching for 'qpid port broker uses at runtime' for example gives a different result and has the java docbook pdf as the top hit, with the old wiki export 3rd...whereas with just 'port broker uses at runtime' the pdf is on page 2 of results). We can surely improve the situation by finishing the docbook off and optimising links and page filenames etc with search engines in mind, it will just require time. Robbie > -----Original Message----- > From: Marnie McCormack [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 27 August 2010 18:41 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Documentation - Google hits > > Do you mean this is item specific - it seemed to me from other searches > that > only the top level strings come back in the first searches and that > text in > the docbook pages doesn't score highly ? > > Thanks, > Marnie > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Robbie Gemmell > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Basically it just still needs finished, and only once its more > > prominent on the website (the FAQ links still point to the wiki > > export) will it start being favoured for search results. > > > > Robbie > > > > On 27 August 2010 16:16, Marnie McCormack > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm wondering if anyone on the list can shed list on why the > details > > > contained in the new docbook format doesn't come back on the front > page > > of > > > Google search results - where the wiki previously did. > > > > > > For example, information on the Qpid Java FAQ comes back from cwiki > but > > not > > > from the docbook (try Google for 'port broker uses at runtime' and > you'll > > > see what I mean). > > > > > > Is there something we need/ought to do to get the docbook stuff > further > > up > > > the index ? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Marnie > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
