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Clean up canonical URL & robots crawler policy #439

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SteelWagstaff opened this issue Jan 14, 2022 · 0 comments

Open

1 of 4 tasks

Clean up canonical URL & robots crawler policy #439

SteelWagstaff opened this issue Jan 14, 2022 · 0 comments

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SteelWagstaff commented Jan 14, 2022 •

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At present, Google is confused as to what our Directory is and what it should lead people to. Examples below from Travis' SEO presentation (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EkKPiWVT8A_CjRGassHXKSpyG_cmBDSMHS54EyMe_Bk/edit#slide=id.gf8eed1d0f8_0_45)

Our goal should be to remove confusing/misleading links from Google search results. To do this, we should

Ensure that https://pressbooks.directory is the site's only canonical URL to help us with faceted navigation and avoid wasting our crawl budget
Create new robots.txt to tell search engines to 'no index' all other router URLs for Directory (filters, etc)
Make sure staging and dev sites are completely 'no indexed'
Marketing team reaches out to people linking to staging Directory and tell them to link to production Directory

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