Re: Bad order of Postgres links in Google search results and how to fix it

Le 31.07.2018 10:57, Nikolay Samokhvalov a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 6:35 AM Oleg Bartunov
> <obartunov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>
>> The problem is well known for a long time, for example, this thread
>> from 2009
>>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1252074856.13736.17.camel%40fsopti579.F-Secure.com
>>
>> It might helps if we generate sitemap.xml
>> (https://www.postgresql.org/sitemap.xml) with links
>> to the pages in "right" order.
>
> Sitemaps won't be really useful here since their primary goal is to
> deliver up-to-date lists of pages to search engines, with lastmod
> timestamps.
>
> To influence on the search engines, it is very important to change the
> real structure of website, to rework existing navigation for humans.
> This is the key to solve this problem. The problem is not huge –
> I've shown "good" examples in my original email and explained why they
> are "good".
>
> We need to fix real users' behaviour – the most imporant thing is
> what people use when they share documentation URLs in social networks,
> blogs and articles.

+1

For the record, Google provides some tools (links below) to understand
how a website is perceived and gives hindsight on how to improve search
results :

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
https://search.google.com/search-console

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Damien Clochard