Dear David, indeed. The 1.8 tutorial shows up first, even though robots.txt clearly says this URL should not go into the index.
@Developers: What do we do? - Delete the v1.8 (and v1.6 and v2.0) docs altogether from the web page - Move them to different location, such as $root/docs/old/* - Do nothing Ideas? Christian Am Dienstag, 15. November 2011 schrieb David T.: > Christian-- > > > A while back I mentioned that the first hits in a Google search for a > Gnucash tutorial returns outdated documentation. > > I just did a new search on "gnucash tutorial," and the top hit for me is > still the v1.8 guide. The svn version is listed second, while the 2.4 > version in pdf is listed third--at least on my computer. > > Cheers, > David > > > ________________________________ > From: Christian Stimming <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: David T. <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:02 AM > Subject: Re: Fixing www.gnucash.orgs/docs > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 schrieb David T.: > > Would it be possible to fix www.gnucash.org so that the docs for version > > 1.8 don't > > appear at the top of Google searches? Currently, most such > > > searches put at least one link for something in www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8 > > in the first few results. This can be extremely misleading to new users, > > who may not even notice the version number in the path. > > > > Perhaps this portion of the document tree could be zipped up and made > > downloadable for that one person out there who still needs documentation > > for 1.8, rather than have some seriously-outdated documentation presented > > to the average user who uses Google to find help for their brand new > > installation of 2.4.6. > > Thanks for pointing this out. As a very first step, I've added the > 1.6/1.8/2.0 paths in robots.txt so that they shouldn't be indexed by > search engines anymore. (There is still the 2.2 *and* 2.4 path allowed.) > > Can you follow up on this issue in a few weeks from now, when the search > engines should > have picked up this change? If the 1.8 docs still show up more > prominently, we should indeed do something about this (such as moving them > to another directory "obsolete..."), but maybe we don't need to zip them > up. > > Regards, > > Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
