Re: SEO for documentation

On 09/30/2015 09:55 AM, Amir Rohan wrote:
> 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
>
>

CC Dave Page, who raised the same issue in February.

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