On 02-Feb-14 21:57, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 2/2/2014 4:47 PM, Bob Arnson wrote:
>> The biggest reason I'd suggest otherwise is that we ran into
>> badly-diluted "Google juice" for a long time with v2 doc urls getting
>> top ranking for years after v3.0 was released. I don't know if there's
>> an SEO technique we could use to fix that.
> Surely that could be solved with a few aliases - e.g.
> http://docs.wixtoolset.org/{release, stable, current} where 'release'
> could be the latest released version, 'stable' docs for the next point
> release, and  'current' would be docs for the next major release.
That would help. You're still spreading around your page ranking, 
though...Python blocks spiders from older and in-development doc sets.

> Or we could do as FreeBSD does with their man page interface, where
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make.conf&sektion=5 - with no
> version specified gives the latest released version (10.0-RELEASE at
> this time) with users able to select other versions including the latest
> development code.
Yeah, MSDN does the same thing. For WiX, we'd have to handle that during 
doc-gen. It'll be tougher for v4 since the namespaces changed.

I'm thinking we need both approaches sooner or later.

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