Re: [hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization
Thanks for pointing that out.
The robots.txt is in place https://docs.jboss.org/robots.txt.
But I couldn't find the sitemap.xml
According to Google:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en
The sitemap.xml is important if:
- Your site is really large
- Your site has a large archive of content pages that are isolated or well
not linked to each other. If you site pages do not naturally reference each
other, you can list them in a sitemap to ensure that Google does not
overlook some of your pages.
So we meet both these two requirements.
Maybe we need to add a sitemap.xml and reference the link to the "stable"
docs only and the modification date.
Vlad
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
Hi Vlad,
We already have something like this, at
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/. The latest final version docs
are available there. It's only that results from there have not a good
search result ranking apparently.
--Gunnar
2015-12-04 20:42 GMT+01:00 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad(a)gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> It seems like a good step to tackle the SEO optimization problem is to
> offer a "curent" link in our site to point to the latest docs.
> That's how PostgreSQL and Spring do it and once this link is indexed by
> google, it will always render the latest version of the docs:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/
>
>
http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html
>
> MySQL does not offer this option and when googling something about MySQL,
> there's a big chance of getting a 5.0 page instead of 5.6 or 5.7.
>
> I think we should add a "current" "symbolic link" in the docs
folder:
>
> https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/
>
> and when we publish a new version, we need to go to Google Webmaster
Tools
> (at least that's how I do it on my blog) and ask google to reindex that
> particular "current" link. I guess that could be automated too.
>
> Vlad
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