Poor indexing of Mercurial website

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Mon Jul 6 15:55:48 UTC 2009


Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to point out that the Mercurial website is poorly indexed by
> Google (and perhaps other engines), which makes it a bit annoying to
> find relevant information by searching. For example, a search for `hg
> transplant` or `mercurial transplant` does not bring the extension's
> official page in the first 10 results.

Yeah, that's quite disappointing. I wonder if there is anything that can
be done to the wiki pages to make them be better indexed?

One small thing I noticed is that the pages are not valid HTML4 despite
claiming so:

  http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmercurial.selenic.com%2Fwiki%2FTransplantExtension

But I cannot imagine that these small errors will affect Google.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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