- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:11:17 -0400
- To: pdsouza@about.com
- CC: Julee <julee@adobe.com>, Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Hi, folks- I've deleted these pages: * 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 Thanks for bringing them to our attention, Garbee! Regards- -Doug On 4/24/13 11:00 AM, Patrick D'Souza wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Patrick D'Souza Developer, Metrics About.com | Do more 1500 Broadway, >>>> 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 AIM: padsouza >>> >>> -- >>> Patrick D'Souza Developer, Metrics About.com | Do more 1500 Broadway, >>> 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 AIM: padsouza >> >> >
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