Daniel Shahaf forwarded along the neat suggestion to embed <link
rel="canonical" ...> tags in the book's HTML pages in order to prioritize newer
book versions in Web search results.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:56:07 +0200
From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: svnbook-dev@red-bean.com
Subject: search results and book versions was: Re: [proposed] remove docs/1.3/
Message-ID: <20120228175254.GA6055@daniel3.local>
> >> <link rel="canonical" href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/"/>
> ..
> For example, searching Google for "rewriterule" has long given the 1.3
> Rewrite Guide, but within 24 hours of adding a rel canonical tag, it
> started pointing to the 2.2 mod_rewrite docs as the top hit.
Something to consider doing for the 1.6-and-earlier versions of the book?
Daniel
(spotted that on dev@httpd)
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In my response, I thought it would be valuable even for the youngest version of
the book so that forks thereof that spring up around the Web would point to the
canonical location. I may have been too hasty, though, as I *think* I just
read that this tag only works (as in, is recognized and handled as expected)
when the source and canonical target are on the same server.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by cmpilato on 1 Feb 2013 at 8:58
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
cmpilatoon 1 Feb 2013 at 8:58