chore(seo): noindex archived docs versions (/docs/1.XX)#1314
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Add an X-Robots-Tag: noindex, follow response header for every archived documentation version under /docs/1.XX/ so old versions stop appearing in search results, while the current docs at /docs/... stay indexed. The trailing-splat path covers new versions automatically, so no change is needed when a version is cut each month. We keep the pages crawlable (no robots.txt Disallow) so crawlers can see the header, and use "follow" so link equity still flows to the current docs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds an
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, followresponse header (vianetlify.toml) for every archived documentation version under/docs/1.XX/, so old versions stop showing up in search results.Why
Old versioned docs currently rank and appear in search alongside the current docs, sending people to outdated pages and diluting the canonical docs. Confirmed against production today:
/docs/1.42/returns200with noX-Robots-Tag, i.e. fully indexable.How it behaves
okteto.com/docs/...(current, unversioned) → indexed (untouched)okteto.com/docs/1.XX/...(any archived version) →noindex, followThe rule is a single trailing-splat path (
for = "/docs/1.*"), so every future monthly version is covered automatically, with no per-release edit.Notes / rationale
noindex(not arobots.txt Disallow) is what actually removes pages from the index. We deliberately keep these pages crawlable so crawlers can see the header; aDisallowwould hide the header and leave stale entries in the index.followlets link equity still flow through to the current docs./docs/-prefixed path matches the way Netlify sees requests (verified: the existing/docs/...redirects fire in production)./docs/1.*prefix in Search Console to speed de-indexing.🤖 Generated with Claude Code