Patrick Lucas created FLINK-9806:
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Summary: Add a canonical link element to documentation HTML
Key: FLINK-9806
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9806
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Documentation
Affects Versions: 1.5.0
Reporter: Patrick Lucas
Flink has suffered for a while with non-optimal SEO for its documentation,
meaning a web search for a topic covered in the documentation often produces
results for many versions of Flink, even preferring older versions since those
pages have been around for longer.
Using a canonical link element (see references) may alleviate this by informing
search engines about where to find the latest documentation (i.e. pages hosted
under [https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/).]
I think this is at least worth experimenting with, and if it doesn't cause
problems, even backporting it to the older release branches to eventually clean
up the Flink docs' SEO and converge on advertising only the latest docs (unless
a specific version is specified).
References:
* [https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization]
* [https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/]
* [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element]
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