Open chris-martin opened 7 years ago
Not a bad idea. @thoughtpolice what do you think?
also @bgamari
I agree that our SEO situation is quite bad. Sadly this is not an area where I have a lot of knowledge. Outright disallowing old versions seems like a rather large hammer, but perhaps the benefit to effort ratio makes it worthwhile.
Would a sitemap be more fine-grained?
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Would a sitemap be more fine-grained?
This is actually the first I've heard of sitemaps. It sounds like composing a sitemap would be the right solution here.
Hi, I'm not sure this is the right place to open this issue, but I'm not sure where the code is for
downloads.haskell.org
, so I hope it's an acceptable discussion place or that somebody can direct me to the proper venue.The SEO situation for GHC seems a bit hairy at the moment, and I was wondering if just adding a
robots.txt
to that site could yield some improvement.Say, for example, you Google for "haskell type families". One of the first results I get is
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.2/docs/html/users_guide/type-families.html
whereas the better result from
haskell.org
would behttps://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/glasgow_exts.html#ghc-flag--XTypeFamilies
It seems unlikely that one would want to search old versions of the manual, so could we clear this up with a robots file with
Disallow
entries for the older GHC versions' docs?