Re: Delete OLD pages.

Hi Doug,

We don't need to exclude them in robots.txt if they are going to be 
deleted. Feel free to go ahead and delete them.

- Patrick

On 04/24/2013 10:42 AM, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, Patrick, Julee-
>
> On 4/23/13 9:30 PM, Patrick D'Souza wrote:
>> Yes we can exclude that pattern in robots.txt. I'll send Doug an updated
>> robots.txt and then look into Google and Bing Webmaster tools to filter
>> out these urls.
>
> It's not necessary to exclude that pattern, since we're just going to 
> delete these few pages.
>
> Currently, they are redirects.
>
> I can see 2 options:
>
> 1) delete the pages now, and let the updated sitemap and webmaster 
> tools / search engines (Google, Bing) simply note that they are gone
>
> 2) remove them manually from the sitemap, and from the webmaster tools.
>
> I would only do #2 if there is some compelling reason that it would 
> significantly harm SEO or something else I haven't thought of.
>
> If I don't hear back in a few hours, I'll just delete them.
>
> Regards-
> -Doug
>
>
>> On 04/23/2013 09:29 PM, Julee wrote:
>>> Hi, Patrick:
>>>
>>> It's a namespace thingie, so
>>>
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:*
>>>
>>> As in:
>>>
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:beginners
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:concepts
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:css
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:dom
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:html
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:javascript
>>> http://docs.webplatform.org/OLD:svg
>>>
>>> That's all I've seen so far.
>>>
>>> Wait: can we exclude that URL pattern?
>>>
>>> J
>>> ----------------------------
>>> julee@adobe.com
>>> @adobejulee
>>>
>>> From: Patrick D'Souza <pdsouza@about.com <mailto:pdsouza@about.com>>
>>> Reply-To: "pdsouza@about.com <mailto:pdsouza@about.com>"
>>> <pdsouza@about.com <mailto:pdsouza@about.com>>
>>> Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:24 PM
>>> To: julee <julee@adobe.com <mailto:julee@adobe.com>>
>>> Cc: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me <mailto:jonathan@garbee.me>>,
>>> "public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>"
>>> <public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
>>> Subject: Re: Delete OLD pages.
>>>
>>> Can you send me the list of OLD namespaced urls and I'll work on
>>> getting them removed if they have been indexed by search engines.
>>>
>>> On 04/23/2013 07:32 PM, Julee wrote:
>>>> +1. Looks like they are in the site maps we submitted. We should
>>>> delete them or archive them if necessary. J
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------
>>>> julee@adobe.com
>>>> @adobejulee
>>>>
>>>> From: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me <mailto:jonathan@garbee.me>>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:30 PM
>>>> To: "public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>"
>>>> <public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
>>>> Subject: Delete OLD pages.
>>>>
>>>> There are a few pages in the OLD namespace such as HTML, CSS, and JS.
>>>> They seem to have made the top of the stats last month [1].
>>>>
>>>> We should first make sure that OLD pages aren't indexed by search
>>>> engines.
>>>>
>>>> Second since the new top level pages for these have no issues
>>>> shouldn't we remove these pages from this OLD namespace?
>>>>
>>>> -Garbee
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
>>>
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>
>

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