Re: Google Organic Search Results for Documentation

[Issac Kelly]

I guess it may just be helpful to at least fix the 'for current
documentation' links on these pages:
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/model-api/
just to go to http://docs.djangoproject.com in general, even if it's not the
correct place, it's better than a message going to the wrong place.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:

> On 08/11/2010 09:51 PM, Paul McMillan wrote:
>
>> I think this is somewhat ameliorated by being able to link to the
>> current trunk documents these days. Many incoming links will be going
>> there. Additionally, for old documents, there is the "these docs are
>> old" message at the top.
>>
>
> When I google, I always end up at the /dev docs with a big warning on top
> "This document is for Django's development version, which can be
> significantly different from previous releases. Get old docs here:..."
>
> The 1.2 docs have the least scary warning.
>
> Does the website tell google (via the xml sitemap, for instance) to prefer
> the /dev docs over the /1.2 docs?  I'd say the /1.2 links would be more user
> friendly to get for default google incoming traffic.
>
>
> Reinout
>
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Re: Google Organic Search Results for Documentation

[Reinout van Rees]

On 08/11/2010 09:51 PM, Paul McMillan wrote:

I think this is somewhat ameliorated by being able to link to the
current trunk documents these days. Many incoming links will be going
there. Additionally, for old documents, there is the "these docs are
old" message at the top.


When I google, I always end up at the /dev docs with a big warning on 
top "This document is for Django's development version, which can be 
significantly different from previous releases. Get old docs here:..."


The 1.2 docs have the least scary warning.

Does the website tell google (via the xml sitemap, for instance) to 
prefer the /dev docs over the /1.2 docs?  I'd say the /1.2 links would 
be more user friendly to get for default google incoming traffic.



Reinout

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Re: Google Organic Search Results for Documentation

[Paul McMillan]

I think this is somewhat ameliorated by being able to link to the
current trunk documents these days. Many incoming links will be going
there. Additionally, for old documents, there is the "these docs are
old" message at the top. It might be beneficial to make that easier to
see for a user who gets linked directly into the middle of a doc
(maybe some sort of floating javascript message?). I don't think that
it would be worth the effort to try to correlate all possible old
incoming link anchors with corresponding ones in the new docs.

-Paul

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Issac Kelly  wrote:
> Often times I'll be trying to search for something like "Model Ordering".
> The problem is that old docs come up first (being older, more linked)
>
> The old docs don't even have links to corresponding areas in the new docs,
> and oftentimes there isn't one corresponding area.
> It seems like this issue was discussed right around the 1.0 release, and not
> since.
> Thanks
> Issac Kelly
>
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Google Organic Search Results for Documentation

[Issac Kelly]

Often times I'll be trying to search for something like "Model Ordering".
The problem is that old docs come up first (being older, more linked)

The old docs don't even have links to corresponding areas in the new docs,
and oftentimes there isn't one corresponding area.
It seems like this issue was discussed right around the 1.0 release, and not
since.

Thanks
Issac Kelly

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