Disable search indexing on versioned documentation #7960
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Hi everyone 👋 Currently, the pages of the versioned documentation of FoalTS are still indexed on Google. So, when someone does a search on Google, in some cases, it comes across the documentation of deprecated versions. Is it it possible to disable search indexing of versioned documentation? The only thing that I see at the moment to do this is to add a |
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That makes sense, will add it now the ability to use Are your deprecated versions docs totally different from the new version docs? Do your older links get backlinks contributing to SEO? In these cases it might be better to point older pages to newer pages with a custom canonical URL 🤷♂️ Unfortunately Google does not make it very clear how to handle versioned documentation Might be a little related to "version aliases" that has been discussed in the past here: #3285 |
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fixed in #7963: you can use the docs plugin options to noindex a specific version |
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Thank you very much for your quick reply @slorber and for implementing the feature so quickly! |
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It depends. Some pages exist in both current and older versions. Other do not exist anymore or have been replaced with pages with other names. |
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That makes sense, will add it now the ability to use
noIndex: trueon version configAre your deprecated versions docs totally different from the new version docs? Do your older links get backlinks contributing to SEO? In these cases it might be better to point older pages to newer pages with a custom canonical URL 🤷♂️ Unfortunately Google does not make it very clear how to handle versioned documentation
Might be a little related to "version aliases" that has been discussed in the past here: #3285