Feature request for : ability to mark an org or project *non-canonical* so that GH will take whatever measures are needed to ensure it does not compete for search engine placement with a non-GitHub canonical site.
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For lots of projects, it makes sense to have a mirror on the official name to prevent someone else from namesquatting it, but many of us *can't* do this or GitHub will bury the real project in search results and everyone's source links will end up being to GitHub.
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Ideally, it would be possible to pass along search ranking via the links that you provide. Unfortunately, GitHub marks all the links that you provide as rel="nofollow" to discourage spammers. So, for example, github.com/GrapheneOS/Aud provides no boost to attestation.app.
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On the other hand, any links that I create to the GitHub repositories increase the ranking for those unless I also include rel="nofollow". GitHub is boosting the search ranking of GitHub repositories for projects relative to their official sites by taking this kind of approach.
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They also use <link rel="canonical"> to explicitly mark all the ways of viewing the repository as the canonical URL for the content. In theory, what you want is a way to configure that, but it's probably too complicated to map to another Git web interface beyond the default view.
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i.e. it would be easy to let you configure the canonical for github.com/GrapheneOS/Aud but mapping the URL structure for a view like github.com/GrapheneOS/Aud to another Git web interface is a lot more complicated. I doubt they'll offer anything because status quo benefits them...
