[hibernate-dev] Hibernate site SEO optimization

[Vlad Mihalcea]

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 at 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 at 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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