On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 13:09, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:58, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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.. > > Yup. It's much the same issue, so it'd be something to try as part > of the "add links to other versions" exercise. Simpler, as it'd be reasonable > to add rel="canonical" pointing to the current page only if the versioned > page has the identical filename. > > i.e. /docs/<version>/<static-or-not>/tutorial-start.html would have > <link rel="canonical" > href="http://www.postgresql.org/current/static/tutorial-start.html";> > in it's <head> for all versions, including the most recent.
Yeah, it seems to be a much "safer" thing, because it's not actually shown in the UI, so it's not critical if we miss a page or two. And yes, we can easily include a check in the page if a page exists with the exact same name in "current". > It's sort of lying to the search engine categorizer, but might hint > it to do what we'd like. Whether it's a good idea or not, I'm not sure. > It'd be nice to get some hints from someone who understands SEO. yeah, I think unless we have that, it's all just speculation anyway... And probably not worth putting too much work into on a pure gamble. -- 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
