Re: Searching for GNOME User Guide

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

Hi Telsa,

The User Guide now has a generic location, where the latest version will
always reside: http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/

So that's where people should end up. Do you know who I can contact to
get redirects to this location on canvas.gnome.org?

I also think it would be a good idea to add the latest User Guide
location to google. If no-one objects, I'll do that at the end of the
week.

Over the next couple of months, I'll see if there is any improvement in
the ranking of the latest User Guide. If there isn't significant
improvement, we can then look at adding keywords to the User Guide
index.html file.

Eugene

Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:34:10PM +0000 or thereabouts, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> > I searched google for the following terms: GNOME user guide
> >
> > I got the following results:
> >
> > Hits 1,2,3 point to a version of the UG that is quite old (1999).
> 
> First two are on canvas.gnome.org:65348/ which I think is the
> astonishingly old version of the website from before the change
> to our current look. That's "ours" so we can put in redirects
> easily, I imagine. For some definition of "we" involving the
> web team?
> 
> I suspect the answer will be "when the new site goes live",
> however.
> 
> > Hit 4 points to gnome.org/learn, which is good, but not ideal.
> > Hits 5 and 6 point to the UG for GNOME 1.4.
> > Hit 7 points to mail.gnome.org
> > Hits 8 and 9 point to user guides for the General NOAA Oil Modeling
> > Environment (GNOME)!
> > Hit 10 points to a user guide for GNOME for RH Linux 6.1.
> >
> > Of Hits 11-30, none of them points to a manual later than 1.4.
> >
> > If I specify the version of GNOME, then the correct user guide is found.
> > However, I can't imagine too many users will expect this.
> >
> > So can we do anything to ensure that more recent versions of the user
> > guide are found by a search like this?
> 
> If those pages are heavily linked-to, then can we just whap a few
> redirects, meta tags or plain old links:
> 
> This version outdated: go to
> <a href="blah" title="Gnome 2.2 user guide">Gnome 2.2 user guide</a>
> instead
> 
> ?
> 
> Chatting on IRC, apparently there are a great many apache redirects
> _to_ :65348 still, so perhaps we can find out whether those are doing
> some of this and lose them? Or add some more redirects in to get to
> the right page. So: where -should- people be ending up?
> 
> Telsa
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