Re: SEO

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:41, Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 22:33, Stefan
> Kaltenbrunner<stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>> Guillaume Smet wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But we don't want to remove the old content, I think. It's still
>>>> relevant for the old versions. So if you search for "something" plus
>>>> "7.4", we want a hit. But if you just search for "something", you get
>>>> /current/.
>>>
>>> You can create a sitemap and define priorities for pages. It's just a
>>> simple XML file with the list of pages and metadata for each page.
>>>
>>> See
>>> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184
>>> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34657
>>
>> I was about to say "we already have that":
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/sitemap.xml
>>
>> but it looks like the script generating that is broken somehow...
>
> That's a static file, not a script :-(
>
> I've updated it. And yes, we should probably turn that into a script :-)

Hmm, it would be good if somebody who knows more about it than me
could confirm this, but it looks like the sitemap needs to contain
*every URL in the docs* to be effective. The one we have now just
contains the root path of each version, but it seems it doesn't apply
to subpages?

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