On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > For posterity, a conversation from IRC: > > [16:06] <pquerna> > http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/supporting-relcanonical-http-headers.html > [16:06] <pquerna> we should use that for the docs > [16:07] <DrBacchus> Use that how, exactly? > [16:08] <DrBacchus> What non-canonical URLs do we want to correct? The > /current/ vs /2.2/ or whatnot? > [16:08] <pquerna> to help versioning > [16:08] <pquerna> yeah > [16:08] <pquerna> and maybe to deprecate 1.3 doc urls? > [16:09] <DrBacchus> That would be handy. > [16:09] <DrBacchus> This is a HTTP header, not something we'd put in the > HTML, though, right? > [16:09] <DrBacchus> Oh, we can do it in the <head> as well. > [16:09] <DrBacchus> <link rel="canonical" > href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish"/> > [16:10] <DrBacchus> Sweet > > > Would be very cool if someone wanted to implement that into the docs build, > and/or include that into the 1.3 docs.
I've added link rel="canonical" to several of the pages in the 1.3 docs which are top results for various searches on Google. I'll check back in a few weeks to see if it has made any difference to those search results. -- Rich Bowen [email protected] [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
