Re: SEO for documentation

On 09/26/2015 11:55 PM, Amir Rohan wrote:
> 
> If you:
> 1) Replace the navbar current version link to always point at
> "/docs/current" (available now, but not used on the website)
> 2) Add a redirect rule to the server so that people accessing direct
> links to the current version are redirected to "/docs/current"
> 
> You'll get people linking to "/docs/current" far more often.


It's circumstantial evidence at best, but Spring Framework
does things this way and their google results are much
cleaner. Mosy searches for "Spring foo", where foo is
a documented topic lead to their /docs/current path.

See: http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/

Also, Related thread from april 2014:
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Regards,
Amir