Why is fedoraproject.org only indexed by Google?
Petr Spacek
pspacek at redhat.com
Tue Jan 27 09:34:24 UTC 2015
On 26.1.2015 16:46, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:53:27 -0700 Brandon Vincent
> <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Any idea why?
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/robots.txt
>>
>> User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10
>>
>> From Bing, "This means the higher your crawl delay is, the fewer pages
>> BingBot will crawl. As crawling fewer pages may result in getting less
>> content indexed, we usually do not recommend it, although we also
>> understand that different web sites may have different bandwidth
>> constraints." [1].
>>
>> [1]
>> http://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/2012/05/03/to-crawl-or-not-to-crawl-that-is-bingbots-question/
>
>>
> Not sure that explains why there are no results at all though.
>
> I think we added the Crawl-delay several years ago when we were having
> storage issues. We could definitely try removing it and see if things
> improve.
Yes please. We definitely should get archives indexed by search engines!
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Petr Spacek @ Red Hat
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