[Scons-users] SCons documentation and google

[Bill Deegan]

Wonder if we can add something to robots.txt which would help?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:01 AM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Good to know.
> Though  updating the old files would be challenging.
> Anyone care to script that up for us.. ;)
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 4:07 AM Max Vilimpoc <max at vilimpoc.org> wrote:
>
>> One way to do it I believe is to set the latest documentation pages as
>> the canonical reference, using <link> tags in the 0.97, 1.2, and 2.3.4
>> pages, pointing them to the 3.1.2 documentation.
>>
>> https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
>>
>> This tells the crawler which page it should consider definitive for a
>> certain search topic.
>>
>>
>> On 2020-06-17 10:46, Julien Pommier wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This is a minor issue, but every time I make some scons-related query
>> > in google, the matches on the scons official website documentation
>> > happen to be for random versions of scons, for example the first
>> > google answer points to scons 0.97 , the second to scons 1.2 and the
>> > third to scons 2.3.4 — I’m not sure what is the best practice for
>> > handling that , but I guess even banning all non-latest docs in the
>> > robots.txt would be better than the current situation !
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