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Update of task #8149 (project cdsware):
Category: None => WebStyle
Status: Done => None
Percent Complete: 100% => 50%
Assigned to: skaplun => simko
Open/Closed: Closed => Open
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Follow-up Comment #1:
On the contrary, it is desirable to let crawlers index all I18N collection
splash pages, because if someone searches in google.fr for, say:
"th?ses de doctorat au CERN"
then if we would have had properly translated collection names on CDSWEB
(that we do not have still), then those users would discover our pages
only if we allow indexing of `?ln=fr'.
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It is therefore better to solve the Google language detection issue in
another way, e.g. by providing HTML meta headers like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fr">
for French pages.
This is done now. (committed 2008-11-27)
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That said, it would be indeed useful to populate {noindex,nofollow}
properties in
our pages everywhere, e.g. in the detailed record tabs.
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OVERVIEW of task #8149:
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URL:
<http://savannah.cern.ch/task/?8149>
Summary: GoogleBot and language support
Project: CDS Invenio
Submitted by: skaplun
Submitted on: 2008-10-16 09:31
Should Start On: 2008-10-16 00:00
Should be Finished on: 2008-10-16 00:00
Category: WebStyle
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Private
Percent Complete: 50%
Assigned to: simko
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Effort: 0.00
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GoogleBot is indexing all the languages of CDS interface. This might not be
desirable since in any case the record in CDS are mainly in English.
This is due to the sitemap sporting all the language URLs and to letting
Google follow the language URLs at the bottom. We might wish to add a
'rel="nofollow"' attribute to such URLs and to instruct sitemap generator not
to generate a link per every language.
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Follow-up Comments:
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Date: 2008-11-27 16:52 By: Tibor Simko <simko>
On the contrary, it is desirable to let crawlers index all I18N collection
splash pages, because if someone searches in google.fr for, say:
"th?ses de doctorat au CERN"
then if we would have had properly translated collection names on CDSWEB
(that we do not have still), then those users would discover our pages
only if we allow indexing of `?ln=fr'.
***
It is therefore better to solve the Google language detection issue in
another way, e.g. by providing HTML meta headers like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fr">
for French pages.
This is done now. (committed 2008-11-27)
***
That said, it would be indeed useful to populate {noindex,nofollow}
properties in
our pages everywhere, e.g. in the detailed record tabs.
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