Closed Bug 706376 Opened 13 years ago Closed 12 years ago

[SEO] Remove products/download.html from search results

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(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

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major

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

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(Reporter: christine.brodigan, Assigned: rik)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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Laura & John, the newly launched http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html is showing up within the top 10 in search results on Bing and Google. I don't think it's the right entry page we want users searching for "firefox download" to jump into.

Screen caps attached.

A quick patch would be to "no follow" this page.
I just used Google's URL removal tool. The page will be removed from Google's SERP soon.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1663637
(In reply to Kohei Yoshino from comment #3)
> I just used Google's URL removal tool. The page will be removed from
> Google's SERP soon.
> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1663637

Thanks for this Kohei. We still need to discuss with the product owners to get their "OK" and then the website team, because this extends beyond Google's search results.
Target Milestone: 4.9 → 4.10
Assignee: nobody → steven
Severity: normal → minor
Target Milestone: 4.10 → 4.11
See this help page: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710

> To entirely prevent a page's contents from being listed in the Google web index even if
> other sites link to it, use a noindex meta tag. As long as Googlebot fetches the page, 
> it will see the noindex meta tag and prevent that page from showing up in the web index. 

So the solution here is adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> to download.html
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: Remove products/download.html from search results → [SEO] Remove products/download.html from search results
(In reply to Kohei Yoshino from comment #6)
> So the solution here is adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> to
> download.html

This is done in trunk in r98819.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Keywords: qawanted
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Whiteboard: r=98819, b=trunk
qa-verified-trunk  <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> on  http://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/products/download.html


filed  bug 710824 for the page being broken on stage
Keywords: qawanted
pushed to production r99169
Whiteboard: r=98819, b=trunk
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html is still on the search results of GBY :(

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Firefox+download
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Firefox+download
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Firefox+download

Access to the page has been blocked by http://www.mozilla.org/robots.txt
so bots cannot see the noindex meta tag at all.

Drop the following line to make the effect of noindex.

> Disallow: /*/products/download.html
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Blocks: 722848
Severity: minor → major
Blocks: 745355
Component: www.mozilla.org/firefox → www.mozilla.org
Taking this for next week.
Assignee: steven → anthony
Fixed with r106119 and pushed with r106120.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Component: www.mozilla.org → General
Product: Websites → www.mozilla.org
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