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docs: exclude /releases urls from search engines #6469

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@chrisrueger chrisrueger commented Feb 15, 2025

everything under urls like https://bnd.bndtools.org/releases/ will be excluded from the sitemap.xml and via robots.txt, so that google (hopefully) does not crawl them

Why? e.g. https://bnd.bndtools.org/releases/4.0.0/instructions/sub.html contains outdated information from previous releases. but the problem is those pages dilute the search results in google and sometimes outdated pages come up first. it is better for bnd / bndtools that current information is preferred.

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everything under urls like https://bnd.bndtools.org/releases/ will be excluded from the sitemap.xml and via robots.txt, so that google (hopefully) does not crawl them

Why? e.g. https://bnd.bndtools.org/releases/4.0.0/instructions/sub.html contains outdated information from previous releases. but the problem is those pages dilute the search results in google and sometimes outdated pages come up first. it is better for bnd / bndtools that current information is preferred.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Rueger <[email protected]>
@chrisrueger chrisrueger merged commit aa753d5 into bndtools:master Feb 15, 2025
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