As a Challenge.gov and/or CitizenScience.gov user, in order to be able to access site pages and content efficiently, I would like relevant site pages to come up in search results.
Acceptance criteria:
[ ] Investigate and draft best practices recommendation for robots.txt setup
[ ] Investigate and draft best practices recommendation for sitemap.xml setup
[ ] Investigate and draft best practices recommendations for noindex and canonical tags
[ ] Review the following sites:
[ ] challenge.gov
[ ] portal.challenge.gov
[ ] citizenscience.gov
Additional questions and resources to look into:
[ ] Consideration: remove noindex tag from print preview pages and add a canonical tag, indicating that a challenge page is the main page for search results
[ ] Question: why there's a canonical tag on the challenge page?
As a Challenge.gov and/or CitizenScience.gov user, in order to be able to access site pages and content efficiently, I would like relevant site pages to come up in search results.
Acceptance criteria:
Additional questions and resources to look into: