Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem
Date: 2016-11-10 20:17:27
Message-ID: CAM3SWZThTBGk-YORL7OByGXoxg9kmOXvb=AKymxyNyO0HwG80Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> If we want to Google searches to always reach the current version unless a
> version is explicitly searched, instrumenting the links to the older versions
> with nofollow while keeping them in the sitemap.xml should work. It does mean
> that we kill the accumulated PageRank on the older pages though (which either
> of these schemes do AFAICT).

Do people really search for something with a specific version
specified? I've never done that, because I rarely particularly need
to, and because I think that it wouldn't work.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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