On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Kent A. Reed <kentallanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/25/2012 1:39 PM, John Thornton wrote: > >> John >> >> On 10/25/2012 8:49 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >>> On 10/25/2012 7:06 AM, John Thornton wrote: >>>> The wiki also has a ton of out of date pages that show up in google >>>> searches and afaik those can only be removed if you have access to the >>>> DH account. >>>> >>>> John >>> Are you referring to the old versions of pages that are kept >>> automagically by the wiki? If we remove those we lose the ability to see >>> what changes have been made over time. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kent > >> But we gain the ability to not confuse people who do a google search for >> anything LinuxCNC. If the page content is needed for history it should... >> > > > I don't know squat about the underlying wiki software, I just know it > works by spawning new pages via links from existing pages and by > creating new versions of existing pages. Is it possible going forward to > stop Google from searching the "historical documents"? I know when I
One has to edit robots.txt to stop urls being searched by the bots looking at http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/robots.txt we see User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?action=history&id=RecentChanges So it should already not find page history (I dont know when that was set so cannot know if search engines will remember stuff still from previous crawls) Dave Caroline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
