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Improve handling of google-indexed pages that no longer exist to avoid users getting 404s #1693

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holly-cummins opened this issue Apr 28, 2023 · 0 comments

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Describe the bug
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This isn't so easy to fix, but I think we should try. In 3.0, kogito was temporarily moved out of the platform. That means there's no 3.0 kogito documentation. Unfortunately, if I search for 'quarkus kogito', I get a whole bunch of results ... all of which lead to a 404.
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Now, this problem will be fixed as soon as Google re-indexes our page. But until the re-index happens, we're giving users a horrible experience. Could we maybe make a 'shadow' page for pages which have disappeared, but which Google (or other third parties) link to? The shadow pages wouldn't be linked from the main site, and would be a simple redirect. It would redirect to the 'correct' URL, so no one would read the URL bar and get the wrong impression. This would avoid 404s when we release new versions.

I think this process would have to be automated based on a diff, because manually discovering all the missing pages and creating redirects sounds like hard work.

(This would also help quarkusio/registry.quarkus.io#188, but that's a secondary benefit since we have other ways of solving that.)

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Most recently, kogito was affected, but this is a generic issue.

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