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The Human Services Data Specification - a data exchange format developed by the Open Referral Initiative
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SEO: Many top hits for HSDS search terms go to v2.0 docs #449

Open pimlottc opened 9 months ago

pimlottc commented 9 months ago

Many of the top hits for HSDS-related search terms go to older version of the docs, when they should probably go to pages under latest

Some examples:

pimlottc commented 9 months ago

This is exacerbated by #448 which makes it harder to reach the updated versions of these docs pages.

mrshll1001 commented 9 months ago

Thanks for this. I think we can address #448 directly in-house at ODS, but SEO is not really our specialism so this issue may be open for a bit longer.

It's definitely not ideal if people searching HSDS are directed to older versions of the docs, although I'm sure this sort of thing has happened before. If anyone has knowledge of other projects who've dealt with this, please don't hesitate to contribute.

greggish commented 9 months ago

Cant we tag the old pages with code so it’s not indexed? Robots.txt ?

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Thanks for this. I think we can address #448 https://github.com/openreferral/specification/issues/448 directly in-house at ODS, but SEO is not really our specialism so this issue may be open for a bit longer.

It's definitely not ideal if people searching HSDS are directed to older versions of the docs, although I'm sure this sort of thing has happened before. If anyone has knowledge of other projects who've dealt with this, please don't hesitate to contribute.

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greggish commented 9 months ago

Wait that might be for a whole site. Maybe noindex? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing