Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem

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