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Better SEO for "Scala spec" #1222

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steinybot opened this issue Mar 8, 2021 · 4 comments
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Better SEO for "Scala spec" #1222

steinybot opened this issue Mar 8, 2021 · 4 comments

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@steinybot
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steinybot commented Mar 8, 2021 •
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Being a lazy Googler I search for "Scala spec" instead of "Scala specification" or "Scala language specification". This only returns the archived 2.11 spec from https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/.

Searching for "Scala specification" will show that Google has ranked the archive spec higher than the latest one (perhaps not much can be done about this if there are too many inbound links to it).

Pretty minor problem but I've hit it enough times recently that it bugged me enough to raise an issue about it.
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preveen-stack commented May 31, 2023 •
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https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide

May be we can improve content to make sure that google identifies this better
view-source:https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/

<html>
--
  | <head>
  | <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />
  |  
  | <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="public/favicon.ico">
  | <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="public/favicon.ico">
  |  
  | <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>
  | <title>Scala Language Specification</title>
  |  
  | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="public/stylesheets/screen.css">
  | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="public/stylesheets/screen-toc.css">
  | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="public/stylesheets/fonts.css">
  | </head>
  |  
  | <body>
  | <header>
  | <div id="header-main">
  | <img id="scala-logo" src="public/images/scala-spiral-white.png" />
  | <span id="title">Scala Language Specification</span>
  | <a id="github" href="https://github.com/scala/scala/tree/2.11.x/spec"><img src="public/images/github-logo@2x.png" alt="Edit at Github"></a>
  | </div>
  | <div id="header-sub">Version 2.11</div>
  | </header>

<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />

  <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="[public/favicon.ico](https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/public/favicon.ico)">
  <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="[public/favicon.ico](https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/public/favicon.ico)">

  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>
  <title>Scala Language Specification</title>

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="[public/stylesheets/screen.css](https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/public/stylesheets/screen.css)">
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="[public/stylesheets/screen-toc.css](https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/public/stylesheets/screen-toc.css)">
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="[public/stylesheets/fonts.css](https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/public/stylesheets/fonts.css)">
</head>

<body>
<header>
  <div id="header-main">
  <img id="scala-logo" src="[public/images/scala-spiral-white.png](https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/public/images/scala-spiral-white.png)" />
  <span id="title">Scala Language Specification</span>
  <a id="github" href="https://github.com/scala/scala/tree/2.11.x/spec"><img src="[public/images/github-logo@2x.png](https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/public/images/github-logo@2x.png)" alt="Edit at Github"></a>
  </div>
  <div id="header-sub">Version 2.11</div>
</header>

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@fsalvi could you de-index https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/ ?

then we can see what happens instead and see whether we need to take further action

@fsalvi
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fsalvi commented Mar 10, 2025

I did it.

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SethTisue commented Mar 10, 2025 •
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Thank you — progress! The top hit on "Scala spec" is now https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.13/

Ideally we'd like the Scala 3 spec to be the top hit, but I don't think we want to de-index 2.13, so we need another solution. I think it would be ideal to have a version drop-down where you can pick 3, 2.13, or 2.12

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