Thomas Schmitt
2013-Dec-08 13:58 UTC
[syslinux] About the google-invisibility of this list
Hi, i wondered why our happy bug hunt about the uninitialized register did not pop up in Google during a search for recent mentionings of xorriso. Wasn't there a thread about google-invisibility a few months ago ? So i began to watch and made an experiment. Can it be that this HTML tag META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" in http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-November/thread.html and http://www.syslinux.org/archives/ is to blame ? --------------------------------------------------------- When i tried with the quite unique search text "Sysinux 6 will not boot", i only got to a search engine (or whatever) called "marshut". Not a single link to a message in www.syslinux.org/archives. The same for the title texts of the other longish threads of november 2013. The source of 2013-November/thread.html looks not overly repelling for search robots. HTML ... HEAD ... META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" should lead them to the messages. Nevertheless this seems not to be usual in mailing list archives. So i made an experiment: http://scdbackup.webframe.org/syslinux_2013_11.html is a copy of 2013-November/thread.html, just missing that tag. I placed a link to it at a fewly visited corner of the web and began to watch daily. This was 8 days ago. Three days ago, "Sysinux 6 will not boot" showed up by three links to the syslinux.org archive. This was probably due to info spreading in the Archlinux community. Today, my lure page showed up for the first time. It is the only match to "Syslinux November 2013" (with quotation marks). And suddenly i get a handful of matches for each of the longer threads in november 2013. --------------------------------------------------------- Maybe just a random incident ... But i think it is worth a try to remove the META NAME="robots" tag from the Year-Month/thread.html pages, and best from http://www.syslinux.org/archives/ too. Have a nice day :) Thomas
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote:> Hi, > > i wondered why our happy bug hunt about the uninitialized > register did not pop up in Google during a search for > recent mentionings of xorriso. > Wasn't there a thread about google-invisibility a few months > ago ? > > So i began to watch and made an experiment. > > Can it be that this HTML tag > META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" > in > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-November/thread.html > and > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/ > is to blame ? > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > When i tried with the quite unique search text > "Sysinux 6 will not boot", i only got to a search engine > (or whatever) called "marshut". > Not a single link to a message in www.syslinux.org/archives. > The same for the title texts of the other longish threads of > november 2013. > > The source of 2013-November/thread.html looks not overly > repelling for search robots. > HTML ... HEAD ... META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" > should lead them to the messages. > > Nevertheless this seems not to be usual in mailing list archives. > So i made an experiment: > http://scdbackup.webframe.org/syslinux_2013_11.html > is a copy of 2013-November/thread.html, just missing that tag. > I placed a link to it at a fewly visited corner of the web > and began to watch daily. This was 8 days ago. > > Three days ago, "Sysinux 6 will not boot" showed up by three > links to the syslinux.org archive. This was probably due to > info spreading in the Archlinux community. > > Today, my lure page showed up for the first time. It is the > only match to "Syslinux November 2013" (with quotation marks). > And suddenly i get a handful of matches for each of the longer > threads in november 2013. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Maybe just a random incident ... > > But i think it is worth a try to remove the META NAME="robots" > tag from the Year-Month/thread.html pages, and best from > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/ > too.That's interesting to say the least. I'm curious if that's what Google's WebMaster tools report (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/?hl=en ). hpa, I'd be willing to look at this. -- -Gene