Thanks for pointing that out. The robots.txt is in place https://docs.jboss.org/robots.txt. But I couldn't find the sitemap.xml
According to Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en The sitemap.xml is important if: - Your site is really large - Your site has a large archive of content pages that are isolated or well not linked to each other. If you site pages do not naturally reference each other, you can list them in a sitemap to ensure that Google does not overlook some of your pages. So we meet both these two requirements. Maybe we need to add a sitemap.xml and reference the link to the "stable" docs only and the modification date. Vlad On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Hi Vlad, > > We already have something like this, at > http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/. The latest final version docs > are available there. It's only that results from there have not a good > search result ranking apparently. > > --Gunnar > > > > 2015-12-04 20:42 GMT+01:00 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > It seems like a good step to tackle the SEO optimization problem is to > > offer a "curent" link in our site to point to the latest docs. > > That's how PostgreSQL and Spring do it and once this link is indexed by > > google, it will always render the latest version of the docs: > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ > > > > > http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html > > > > MySQL does not offer this option and when googling something about MySQL, > > there's a big chance of getting a 5.0 page instead of 5.6 or 5.7. > > > > I think we should add a "current" "symbolic link" in the docs folder: > > > > https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/ > > > > and when we publish a new version, we need to go to Google Webmaster > Tools > > (at least that's how I do it on my blog) and ask google to reindex that > > particular "current" link. I guess that could be automated too. > > > > Vlad > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev