[FM Discuss] Google picking up old pages

[Joshua Facemyer]

It would probably make more sense to do a permanent (301) redirect for 
multiple reasons - better SEO, and if someone clicks a page, it would be 
great if they were directed to the current version of the manual.

There could probably fairly simple be a rule (for manuals that want it) 
to direct the old page urls to the new manual pages on a per-manual basis...

Just a thought.

JF

On 1/20/12 10:08 AM, adam wrote:
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> On 01/20/2012 03:58 PM, Daniel James wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> Since the page title fix was made, Flossmanuals pages seem to be getting
>> onto the first page of Google for certain searches, such as:
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>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/airtime/ch013_manual-installation/
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>> Trouble is, that's an old page from an earlier export (with a chapter
>> number prefix). The current page is at:
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>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/airtime/manual-installation/
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>> Is there any way we can purge these older pages at export time? The main
>> problem with old pages (apart from out of date content) is that the
>> navigation points to other old pages. So it's possible to read the
>> complete book and every page be out of date, and the reader not even
>> realise.
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> some people like the old pages there for archives. but happy to 
> delete. send me a list of the manuals u want cleaned
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> adam
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>> Cheers!
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>> Daniel
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