On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:58, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> A related problem: At least a search on Google will usually find the >> documentation of some old version. A search on Bing, however, doesn't >> find the documentation at all. That indicates to me that there is >> something seriously wrong in how the web site is constructed.
What we were told earlier was "just add a sitemap with relative weights and that should fix it". Well, we now have a sitemap with relative weights, and it has made pretty much no effect at all (but a fair amount of work was unfortunately spent in building it :S) We can use it to *remove* the older versions so it only hits on current, but that's not really what we want. > rel="canonical" is one way to tell search engines to look at one > particular page as the canonical version. We could make that for the root docs link, but is it generally smart enough to realize that any sublinks in those docs are *also* the canonical versions? I doubt it, but I don't know enough about google... > Having all the specific-version pages use that to point to the > non-version URL might help. Ah, you mean basically a link on every page going back to /current/? That does bring back the whole problem of filenames/URLs being different between different versions of course.. > The existing priority stuff in the sitemap should help with this, > but it doesn't seem to. Exactly. > I'm assuming someone has checked the google webmaster > tools reports for the site, to see if there's anything interesting > there. I have, and not found anything interesting. But I'm happy to admit I don't really know what I'd be looking for :-) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
