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Extremely poor docs.python.org SEO performance. #1691
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@JulienPalard Any ideas here? Do you have/need access to the google search console for docs? |
I do have access to the search console, but I don't think I'm of any help from an SEO point of view. The search console is telling us our "mobile ergonomy is bad", it's probably just that? I heard Google is ranking mobile pages first. We have a PR opened to make the doc responsive since may here: python/python-docs-theme#46 I don't know if it could help. |
Describe the bug
docs.python.org has atrocious search performance on Google. It's so bad that I suspect Google is actively downranking it for some reason.
To Reproduce
Search Google for virtually any Python documentation topic. The ones that drove me here were searches for [python set] and [python shuffle list].
Expected behavior
docs.python.org is the authoritative source for Python documentation on the web. I expect to find relevant results on docs.python.org somewhere on the first page of Google search results.
Instead, I find the opposite. For [python set] I expect to find https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#set
somewhere on the first page of results, but instead, the only python.org result I see is for the long-deprecated
Python 2
sets
module --https://docs.python.org/2/library/sets.html
For [python shuffle list], neither https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html nor any other python.org result shows up anywhere on the first page.
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Additional context
These results are egregious enough to make me suspect you're
being actively downranked for some reason. This isn't a request for general SEO optimization -- although that'd be a great project if someone has the interest -- but for a domain admin to try to use Google's search console (https://developers.google.com/search) to investigate if there's something egregiously wrong with an easy fix.
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