joyent/node — Issue #1875: Versioned Documentation and SEO
Author: nshah
Created: 2011-10-12 21:48:27+00:00
State: open

Hey,

This isn't a bug report, but more of an idea for improving the way documentation is indexed by search engines. Today, docs are available for various versions on nodejs.org (which is great), and are all indexed by search engines. This results in a mixed set of docs available including various minor versions, for example:

http://www.google.com/search?q=nodejs+createserver
http://www.google.com/search?q=createserver%20site:nodejs.org

It feels like this fragments the SEO score, and also makes it such that older versions which have been linked from various places end up with higher scores.

I'm not sure what the best solution would be. One approach is to have only the stable version indexed, another could be to limit it to major versions (so nodejs.org/docs/v0.5/ would be the latest in the 0.5 series). Anything to reduce the number of independent versioned docs indexed by search engines would be great. And to clarify, I'm only taking about what search engines should index, docs for specific versions should be available via nodejs.org for sure.

Thanks for reading.