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Hide non-default readthedocs versions from search engines #2708

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mhsmith opened this issue Jul 13, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2833
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Hide non-default readthedocs versions from search engines #2708

mhsmith opened this issue Jul 13, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2833
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mhsmith commented Jul 13, 2024

#2706 was apparently caused by a user trying to follow the "latest" documentation while using the stable version. This has happened a few times.

Even though the "stable" version is set as the default on readthedocs, I've noticed that the "latest" version still often appears in Google search results. Older versions sometimes show up as well.

It looks like we could avoid this by adding robots.txt rules for latest and v*.
@mhsmith mhsmith added the documentation An improvement required in the project's documentation. label Jul 13, 2024
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RTD's own docs have section on SEO, which directly suggests adding a robots.txt file, as well as a sitemap and meta tags, so that definitely seems like the way forward.

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Added robots.txt to disallow older version docs. cgkoutzigiannis/toga
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