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# 8  
Old 05-30-2019
Update:

This may be having an untended negative effect on SEO, because instead of "soft 404s" the search indexes are getting full of very old unix information, which may be of interest from an academic or historical perspective, are not really search terms which are relevant to today's problem solvers.

For example "Multics"... while this is historically interesting, it's not going to drive search results to the site from today's unix and linux users.

The same is true for other historical "keywords" and "historical bios".

Hmmmm.

I think we will need a more modern approach to making "soft 404" pages more appealing to Google, LOL

Maybe adding a relevant man page based on keyword matching to "thin" pages?
# 9  
Old 06-03-2019
I have replaced this "history section" with a "matched man page section".

This was accomplished by moving the man page entries to an SQL database (currently over 210K unique entries) and doing Full Test searches of the DB to get scores of the matches and the to choose on of the top scores at random. The Man DB that I created for this may be larger than the entire DB before, and it is certainly by far the largest table in the DB.

I think this will work better than "history" sections, since we can learn new commands and man entries when viewing tags and posts.

After I runs a bit longer and it well tested, I will redo how the repositories are done; since I can now pull the info for all repositories for the DB and not read from the file system.

It should be a lot faster when I rewrite the repo pages to use the DB.

Also, our SEO scores should go up, I am guessing, and I anticipate the number of links in our index will continue to increase. Currently, GSC shows about 320K links. I expect this to continue to rise due to the changes I have made this month.
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# 10  
Old 06-03-2019
Also, the old man page repo was giving about 10 - 15+ percent errors because it was so large and difficult to manage.

Now, that I am moving the man page text and keys to the SQL DB and rewritten the search algorithms, the error rate has dropped to 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent.

That is a huge improvement in results.

Also, since I have completely changed the search algorithm, I have completely eliminated the need for HTTP redirects completely, which was a flaw in the algorithm I wrote a decade ago.

Seriously, it's a huge improvement and will get even better when I rewrite the repo landing pages for each OS and create a new custom search function / page.
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