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Setting Canonical Links in Typesense Documentation

TLDR Jeremy suggested setting the default version to latest in typeSense. Dima proposed canonicalization and Jason confirmed its deployment.

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Aug 09, 2023 (4 months ago)
Jeremy
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Jeremy
07:37 PM
Would be nice to have it default to the latest version of typesense
Jason
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Jason
07:40 PM
We do want users to be able to access docs for older versions… so redirecting to latest version would prevent access to older versions.

We’ve tried setting page priority in sitemaps, but google doesn’t seem to care about these 😞
Jeremy
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Jeremy
07:47 PM
Hah bummer. Having old documentation is very helpful, it just seems random which version google decides to send me to 😄
Dima
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Dima
08:13 PM
Maybe it’s a good idea to set up canonicalization for the latest version:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/canonicalization
Jason
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Jason
08:15 PM
I see, interesting! Thanks Dima. Will set this up
11:16
Jason
11:16 PM
Just deployed these canonical links 🤞