770274 - Google results for old versions of docs rank higher than remotely recent ones

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: Documentation, defect, P3)

Description

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

When searching for particular Jetpack docs, often the first page contains docs for an ancient version, such as 1.0 or 1.1, while finding docs from recent releases is difficult save for searching for the particular version.

There are two things which can probably be done about this:

1) Warn on documentation pages from old SDK versions that they are so, and provide a link to the latest version. This is related to bug 553064, but that was closed for reasons unrelated to this.

2) Push doc URLs with /latest/ rather than /$version/ and provide a permalink to the docs for a specific version on those pages.

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

P3 for now. We can come revisit this after we move our docs to MDN.

Comment 2

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

We have a plan for the future hosting of the docs:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/JetpackWeb

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I don't think this is a duplicate of bug 779590. That helps users who end up at the old docs, this is about trying to make sure the new docs are the highest ranking so they show up first in google searches.

Comment 5

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

I don't think there's anything to be done here, now the docs are on MDN.