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No summary for our documentation pages in Google search results

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#13,267 opened on Jul 12, 2022

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@chriseth reports that search hits in our docs look like this in Google: image

Here's what Googles's help says about this: No page information in search results.

I'm pretty sure this has something to do with the robots.txt changes we did some time ago #10898. The search result seems to be from develop, which our robots.txt block. We only allow latest, v0.7.6 and latest release. The question is - why is develop still getting indexed (and appears in results before those other allowed versions) if we blocked it?

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Check the robots.txt file for the documentation site and verify the disallow rules for the 'develop' version. Ensure that the correct meta tags or headers are set to prevent indexing of non latest versions.
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