Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem
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Msg-id CAM3SWZThTBGk-YORL7OByGXoxg9kmOXvb=AKymxyNyO0HwG80Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Responses Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem  (Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>)
Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem  (Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>)
Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> If we want to Google searches to always reach the current version unless a
> version is explicitly searched, instrumenting the links to the older versions
> with nofollow while keeping them in the sitemap.xml should work.  It does mean
> that we kill the accumulated PageRank on the older pages though (which either
> of these schemes do AFAICT).

Do people really search for something with a specific version
specified? I've never done that, because I rarely particularly need
to, and because I think that it wouldn't work.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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