Fixing www.gnucash.orgs/docs

[Johannes Kapune]

Hi to all,
I also do search on google.de and get same results:

first
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/

second
http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/

third
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide.pdf


Johannes

Am 13.07.2011 03:22, schrieb Derek Atkins:
> But was the link active, and if so to which URL?
> -derek
>
> On Tue, July 12, 2011 8:55 pm, David T. wrote:
>> Christian--
>>
>> I just did a Google search on "gnucash tutorial". Unfortunately, the top
>> hit for me is still the v1.8  guide. The svn version is listed second,
>> while the 2.4 version in pdf is listed third--at least on my computer.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Christian Stimming<christian at cstimming.de>
>> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>> Cc: David T.<sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: Fixing www.gnucash.orgs/docs
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 schrieb David T.:
>>> Would it be possible to fix www.gnucash.org so that the docs for version
>>> 1.8 don't appear at the top of Google searches? Currently, most such
>>> searches put at least one link for something in
>>> www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8
>>> in the first few results. This can be extremely misleading to new users,
>>> who may not even notice the version number in the path.
>>>
>>> Perhaps this portion of the document tree could be zipped up and made
>>> downloadable for that one person out there who still needs documentation
>>> for 1.8, rather than have some seriously-outdated documentation
>>> presented
>>> to the average user who uses Google to find help for their brand new
>>> installation of 2.4.6.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out. As a very first step, I've added the
>> 1.6/1.8/2.0
>> paths in robots.txt so that they shouldn't be indexed by search engines
>> anymore. (There is still the 2.2 *and* 2.4 path allowed.)
>>
>> Can you follow up on this issue in a few weeks from now, when the search
>> engines should have picked up this change? If the 1.8 docs still show up
>> more
>> prominently, we should indeed do something about this (such as moving them
>> to
>> another directory "obsolete..."), but maybe we don't need to zip them up.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Christian
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