We tried various things before, but they obviously haven't worked. Unless someone knows something we can do that we aren't presently, I think we should remove them. I actually think we should remove them anyway, as we don't even support older versions.
Aaron Meurer On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 11:10 AM David Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05/11/2019 17:10, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > I just took a look at the Google search console data for Google search > results related to sympy.org domains for October, 2019. Here is the > data for > > search terms: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SVFe2Fw42okYy_Q6uTQs64ful--hTsigppWWXDA9bY0/edit?usp=sharing > > and > > page results: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16LKHE9sPRJ5z9GYcYK74Qhn0ABVsBHpivv0pBh1mj68/edit?usp=sharing > > There is also some other data but I didn't find it to be very interesting. > > Some of the interesting things: > > - The documentation page for solvers is the top result. It gets as > much traffic as sympy.org itself. So we should focus on improving this > page. I think it would be good to have some text at the top of the > page that gives a general overview of SymPy solvers. I think a big > reason it is so popular is that people associate the verb "solve" with > a very general thing that doesn't necessarily correspond to > sympy.solve(). > > - A lot of search results are for old versions of the documentation, > going all the way back to 0.6.7, which is the earliest version that is > there. 0.6.7 was released in 9 1/2 years ago in 2010. I still strongly > believe that we should remove these pages, as they confuse users. I've > had pushback in the past about this, though. > > - A lot of searches are for general "symbolic python". That means > people either can't remember the name "sympy" or they don't know about > it but want to see if something like it exists. > > If anyone wants more access to the search console let me know. > > Aaron Meurer > > Aaron, > > I strongly agree with you that it is all too easy to to searches related to > SymPy, and get out of date documentation (I have done this many times!), so I > think would be a great help to remove all the obsolete documentation. > Presumably there is some way to remove the pages so that GOOGLE searches land > gracefully on the latest documentation. > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/0228636e-7121-442a-111c-47ef81421849%40dbailey.co.uk. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6Kj9y-GybEDrG%2BmONOMB73h8r5NZ3yUL0zrWA0oheRwvg%40mail.gmail.com.
