Thanks, Mark, very helpful!
Bob Harner On Jun 1, 2011 9:23 PM, "Mark" <mark-li...@xeric.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Mark, thanks for the tips! >> >>> 2. Specify a canonical url for the old pages. >> >> Not following you there. Care to explain? > > Lets say you have a website that sells a running shoe called the x115 > and you can find the same shoe with variations under different paths. > So you might have: > > www.example.com/running_shoes/x115.html > www.example.com/blue_shoes/x115.html > www.example.com/red_shoes/x115.html > www.example.com/trendy_shoes/x115.html > etc. > > When a search engine sees this, there isn't really anyway to figure > out which page is the canonical page for the x115. To solve this, you > can specify the canonical url in your <head> like this: > > <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/running_shoes/x115.html"; /> > > You put that in each page to tell Google that when someone searches > for x115, you really want them to get the version in the running_shoes > directory. > > So in cases where we have a lot of very similar documentation, it > could make sense to specify the current version as the canonical > version. So basically all the prior versions would point to the > current version. > > You might be able to accomplish about the same thing, simply by > linking all old docs that need to be kept for historical purposes to > their closes match in the new documentation. Still the canonical is an > option to consider. It may depend on what is easiest to implement more > than anything. > > Oh and if you do remove content, the most ideal thing would be to > redirect those pages to the closes equivalent using a 301 redirect. > That will handle any existing links and it will preserve and redirect > the page rank to the new pages. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org >
