docs: exclude /releases urls from search engines - #6469
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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 e.g. https://bnd.bndtools.org/releases/4.0.0/instructions/sub.html contains outdated information from previous releases. but the problem is those pages dilute the search results in google and sometimes outdated pages come up first.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 <chrisrueger@gmail.com>
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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 e.g. https://bnd.bndtools.org/releases/4.0.0/instructions/sub.html contains outdated information from previous releases. but the problem is those pages dilute the search results in google and sometimes outdated pages come up first.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.
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