Thomas McGuire schreef op 3-4-2014 10:47: > Hi, > > On Thursday 03 April 2014 08:02:16 Rutledge Shawn wrote: >> On 2 Apr 2014, at 6:07 PM, Ariel Molina wrote: >>> The current state of Qt docs is very sad, making online searches near to >>> useless. All Google searches refer either to broken pages, to 4.x doc >>> pages, to incomplete 5.0 unstables or even to 3.3 documentation. What's >>> the point on having 5.x (or any) docs if you keep moving them around >>> hiding it from search engines and breaking links on every site that >>> links to you? >>> >>> You might point a root folder, but, let's be honest, none uses any root >>> folder to search, everyone uses Google or another search engine. >>> >>> Please whatever you do, do not break this anymore, the current state is >>> already messed up. >> I agree. But I think the idea was to change it one last time and then >> never change it again, and the docs that google finds should be always the >> latest rather than a particular version. I hope that goal is achieved... > Moving around is fine, but please make sure old links redirect to the new > places. It is not just Google results affected by moving around docs, it is > also links in other places like answers in Stackoverflow questions. And the qt-project.org forums, not to forget.
> And yes, the fact that Google finds old versions is a problem. For example a > search for "qprocess setreadchannel" will give the 4.8 version as the first > result. How about adding a "Versions" box to the sidebar that gives convenient > links to all other versions of the QProcess documentation? Then even if Google > finds an old version first, the user can quickly jump to the newest. > Btw, any idea why Google prefers the 4.8 version? Probably because there are way more external links to it which makes it rank higher. André _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
