Re: SEO for documentation

From: Amir Rohan <amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: SEO for documentation
Date: 2015-09-30 06:55:21
Message-ID: 560B8759.7000903@mail.com
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On 09/26/2015 11:55 PM, Amir Rohan wrote:
>
> If you:
> 1) Replace the navbar current version link to always point at
> "/docs/current" (available now, but not used on the website)
> 2) Add a redirect rule to the server so that people accessing direct
> links to the current version are redirected to "/docs/current"
>
> You'll get people linking to "/docs/current" far more often.

It's circumstantial evidence at best, but Spring Framework
does things this way and their google results are much
cleaner. Mosy searches for "Spring foo", where foo is
a documented topic lead to their /docs/current path.

See: http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/

Also, Related thread from april 2014:
<04E4F5A6-6526-4DDC-A9E5-2991E3B2ED83(at)cantoute(dot)com>

Regards,
Amir

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