Fixing www.gnucash.orgs/docs

[David T.]

--- On Wed, 6/15/11, Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:

> From: Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de>
> Subject: Re: Fixing www.gnucash.orgs/docs
> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Cc: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 12:02 AM
> 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 for 1.8, rather than have some seriously-outdated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.

Thanks for doing this, Christian. I'll check periodically to see that it clears up. Mostly, I (like the rest of the world) use Google, but I can check what other big search enginges do as well.

David

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
>