Links ought to point to the "latest" urls, which will always point to the latest docs. Unfortunately, we didn't use "latest" in old versions, but rather the version itself in the url, so a lot of links out there point to old versions.
Perhaps we should install Google Analytics into the docs so we can get an idea of where links are coming from. Aaron Meurer On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Joachim Durchholz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 21.06.2015 um 18:48 schrieb Francesco Bonazzi: >> >> >> On Sunday, 21 June 2015 04:14:11 UTC+2, Aaron Meurer wrote: >>> >>> >>> We should probably remove the dev-py3k docs. I don't think they have >>> been updated in a long time. >>> >>> >> Maybe it's better to put a 301 status code for a while, before removing >> them. In this way, google will probably correctly update the search >> results >> URLs. > > > Sort-of. It's hard to predict what Google will do. That's intentional, > Google needs to stay ahead of link spammers to stay useful to the general > public. > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301 >> >> By the way, when looking for SymPy's documentation on google, there are >> often results from past versions of SymPy, instead of latest. Does anyone >> know how to tell Google to update the links? > > > Google goes by how many links point to what page. As long as the old pages > have more and "more relevant" links pointing to them, they will stay on top > of the search results. > > The best we can do is to update the old pages with a warning that the page > is deprecated, and with a link to the new page; this could also be done for > the dev-py3k docs. > As people start placing more links to the newer pages, the older ones will > start to drop on the results. However, they need to know that newer pages > exist, else they'll continue linking to the first that they found in Google, > further strengthening the old page's rank. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5586EEF4.7050103%40durchholz.org. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6KhskYLMeKusn55%3DZ98qoyLJg3fOvAnhA_iK5TJi%2BVXog%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
