On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 5:53 PM Jimmy McArthur <jimmy@openstack.org> wrote:
Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> March 13, 2020 at 4:33 PM On 2020-03-13 20:59:30 +0000 (+0000), Sean Mooney wrote: [...]
Yep, this trips me up fairly often as well. The pattern of serving multiple versions of documentation is a fairly widespread one, far beyond just OpenStack circles, so maybe we should look at some other examples and see if we can reverse engineer how they manage to direct search results to their latest versions. For example, why do searches for Python module names return results under https://docs.python.org/3/ before they return results for https://docs.python.org/3.5/ ? I briefly skimmed the page sources for some examples but nothing jumped out at me, nor did the site's robots.txt provide any insight. Perhaps SEO specialists know what trick is at play there?
I will add it to my list of questions. Normally you'd do it with redirects to the latest, but that doesn't help if you're trying to keep archived documentation.
Sean Mooney <smooney@redhat.com> March 13, 2020 at 3:59 PM
On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 15:46 -0500, Jimmy McArthur wrote:
Sorry - I accidentally left Zuul keywords and examples in there. Fixed below:
Jimmy McArthur <mailto:jimmy@openstack.org> <jimmy@openstack.org> March 13, 2020 at 3:27 PM Hi all -
We've contracted a professional SEO firm to help improve search placement for all OSF projects. I'd like to crowd source this on each of the project mailing lists, so the community is able to be involved. Could you all help out in providing the below:
“Wish List” of keywords: 8-12 big terms you think fit your domain (if you only have 4-5 to share, fewer is okay) - open infrastructure - ?
At least 3 competitors - AWS - ?
Any other input on positioning, offerings, etc. that you think will help best filter for relevance - ?
honestly the only think i would like to see is fixing the search result so that the 'latest' version of all our doc are at the top of the list instead of pike. the docs for our older release always come up first and its hard fo fine the direct link to the 'latest' version which tracks master.
granted i have it save in my broswer history but when users are looking for docs on things it would be nice if they got the more recent docs.
Cheers, Jimmy
Jimmy McArthur <jimmy@openstack.org> March 13, 2020 at 3:46 PM Sorry - I accidentally left Zuul keywords and examples in there. Fixed below:
Jimmy McArthur <jimmy@openstack.org> March 13, 2020 at 3:27 PM Hi all -
We've contracted a professional SEO firm to help improve search placement for all OSF projects. I'd like to crowd source this on each of the project mailing lists, so the community is able to be involved. Could you all help out in providing the below:
“Wish List” of keywords: 8-12 big terms you think fit your domain (if you only have 4-5 to share, fewer is okay) - open source ci - ?
At least 3 competitors - Jenkins - ?
Any other input on positioning, offerings, etc. that you think will help best filter for relevance - ?
Cheers, Jimmy
It would be really great if when you click the current release is X button at the top of the page it would reload the same doc and just replace the release instead of directing you back to the home page of the doc release. [image: image.png] -- ~/DonnyD C: 805 814 6800 "No mission too difficult. No sacrifice too great. Duty First"
