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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That makes sense, will add it now the ability to use
noIndex: true
on 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