Should we add "no-index" to old spec versions?

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Should we add "no-index" to old spec versions?

tomcrane opened this issue 6 years ago · 4 comments

I suspect that's far too drastic, but https://iiif.io/api/search/0.9/ always comes up in Google search and 1.0 doesn't when I look for "iiif search".

Any gentler form of nudging search engines to 1.0?

Answer 1 · 2022-02-24T00:17:43.000Z

IIIF search is OK now but:

"iiif content state" -> goes to 0.3
"iiif change discovery" -> goes to 0.9.2

Answer 2 · 2022-02-25T19:59:04.000Z

I'm not sure this is the right solution, but it looks like we could request the removal old version from indexing via the Google Search Console

Answer 3 · 2022-02-25T20:00:41.000Z

I should add that they have a field for "outdated content", which I think would cover this case, seems like it is potentially treated differently than DMCA removals or other more urgent/legal reasons why people request things to be removed from indexing via the Google Search Console.

Answer 4 · 2022-02-26T22:53:01.000Z

I had a look at the removal tool but it seemed to be for content that had been deleted but still appeared in google search results but we can give it a try and see how it works.