Making Launchpad friendly to search engines

Status

• Created: 21/04/05 by MarkShuttleworthBR

• Priority: HighPriorityBR

• People: MatthewPaulThomasLead, DafyddHarriesSecondBR

• Contributors: MarkShuttleworthBR

• Status: UduBof, LaunchpadSpecification, SpecElsewhere, DraftSpecBR

• Pending: SteveAlexanderQueue

Summary

Making Launchpad maximally usable to search engines will increase exposure of Launchpad pages to developer eyeballs. There are four main issues: making useful pages indexed, making useless pages not indexed, preventing link spam, and removing the appearance of link spam. All these problems can be solved or minimized with technical means.

Spec elsewhere

https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/LaunchpadGooglification