Bug 268980 - Multiple outdated versions of Handbook shows up in search engines
Summary: Multiple outdated versions of Handbook shows up in search engines
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Website (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado
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Reported: 2023-01-16 10:02 UTC by Daniel Engberg
Modified: 2023-04-04 18:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-01-16 10:02:53 UTC
We have multiple versions hosted on people's personal webdirs that we most likely should hide or simply remove. There are possibly more but these are what I found doing a simple search using Google.

https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/doc/handbook/makeworld.html
https://people.freebsd.org/~trhodes/doc/handbook/index.html
https://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/doc/handbook/index.html
https://people.freebsd.org/~nik/book.pdf.gz
https://people.freebsd.org/~meganm/data/docs.html
Comment 1 devnull freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-01-16 12:03:26 UTC
(In reply to Daniel Engberg from comment #0)

Randomly picking one of the five, <https://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/doc/handbook/index.html> revision 48108 is also indexed and found (with an archive banner) at <https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/10.3-RELEASE/usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/en/books/handbook/>. 

<https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=a0f41809ca112eb4eb5e98f7d0921e65f7cb0ee2> and <https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=44de4593873ab1e85e1487c2a8540262a3b09744> (2022-12-10) were: 

> Improve SEO of the Documentation Portal
> 
> * Remove SVN tag
> * Stop indexing the archive

I can't recall the query through which the archived version was found, sorry. It was almost certainly with Google.
Comment 2 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-01-16 12:11:17 UTC
Thanks. I'll try to fix this ASAP.
Comment 3 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-02-17 21:45:37 UTC
Found another one too...
https://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/handbook/
Comment 4 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-03-19 09:28:25 UTC
Friendly ping
Comment 5 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-03-19 18:43:48 UTC
(In reply to Daniel Engberg from comment #4)
In theory in a couple of days these URLs will be removed from the search engines.
Comment 6 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-04-04 18:48:36 UTC
In theory in the last changes implemented by dbaio@ this problem should be solved.
I'm gonna close this PR. We're gonna continue improving the SEO of the Documentation Portal.

Thanks!