breautek commented on issue #1279: URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/issues/1279#issuecomment-1363241555
We can't really control how search engines indexes their search results. I think the best we can do is start adding [noindex](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing) meta tag on pages that are ancient. It will be up to the search engines to honour this rule, but Google should be in that group that does honour meta tag rules, considering they are the ones that is also documenting `noindex`. > Could outdated documentation be removed or archived? We tried something similar to this in the past, purely to speed up builds, but failed to push a PR through as community members felt like we needed to maintain links and avoid 404s. If a link is specifically targeting an older version, then redirecting it to a different version is also not acceptable. So I don't think these versions are going anywheres. But I think we can probably start adding a `noindex` rule on the old versions, maybe every version up to the last 2 or 3 versions. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
