Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

On 10 December 2015 at 15:26, Steve Ebersole wrote: > I am not really sure what "have their headers patched to declare that the > new guides are the canonical version" means in practical terms... It means that the HTML pages of the documentation should have some metadata

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

I am not really sure what "have their headers patched to declare that the new guides are the canonical version" means in practical terms... On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:55 AM Sanne Grinovero wrote: > On 9 December 2015 at 16:36, Steve Ebersole wrote: > >

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

Hi, I think one thing not mentioned on this thread is the fact that we are not controlling the root of the webserver (afaik). The docs are hosted on docs.jboss.org and I think we only have write access to the hibernate sub-folder. And even if we had access to the root and could modify

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

Related to this, the sitemap is limited to 50k entries and hosting multiple projects, each one with tons of pages, is going to limit the number of entries we get in the sitemap. Is there any change we host the docs on hibernate.org and simply redirect the old pages from

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

Hi, On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Vlad Mihalcea wrote: > Is there any change we host the docs on hibernate.org and simply redirect > the old pages from > > http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate > > to > > http://hibernate.org/orm/documentation That would be an option I guess. Host the

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

We could leave the ones that are on docs.jboss.org in place and just move the current stable ones. I see no benefit to moving ORM 3.2 docs over e.g. On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:08 AM Sanne Grinovero wrote: > On 9 December 2015 at 13:54, Hardy Ferentschik

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

On 9 December 2015 at 13:54, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Vlad Mihalcea wrote: >> Is there any change we host the docs on hibernate.org and simply redirect >> the old pages from >> >> http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate >> >> to >>

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

On 9 December 2015 at 16:36, Steve Ebersole wrote: > We could leave the ones that are on docs.jboss.org in place and just move > the current stable ones. I see no benefit to moving ORM 3.2 docs over e.g. I'm ok to leave them there, but if we do they at least need to have

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

Stefania (my girlfriend but also a professional SEO consultant) also pointed out that we should make sure that indexing engines understand that the documentation pages are intentionally similar, as you get penalised for duplicate content. So as you suggest we need to mark - for each guide - which

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

I've started discussions about this in general wrt the hibernate.org webpage. There is a lot of version-specific information there. Hosting this specifically for documentation on the doc site would be one option. Note however that we have limited forms of access to that docs site which makes it

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

Thanks for pointing that out. The robots.txt is in place https://docs.jboss.org/robots.txt. But I couldn't find the sitemap.xml According to Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en The sitemap.xml is important if: - Your site is really large - Your site has a large

Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

Hi Vlad, We already have something like this, at http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/. The latest final version docs are available there. It's only that results from there have not a good search result ranking apparently. --Gunnar 2015-12-04 20:42 GMT+01:00 Vlad Mihalcea