"Download Kubuntu" results in obsolete getkubuntu/download-lts page on website

Bug #1397612 reported by skierpage
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Kubuntu Website
Fix Released
Medium
José Antonio Rey

Bug Description

I googled for "Download Kubuntu", and the first result was http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download-lts

That page looks OK and has a link for BitTorrent "Desktop CD, 64bit", which takes me to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/precise/release/kubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent , but
a) the torrent is a 404
b) 14.04 is the current LTS!
c) I want latest Kubuntu

The actual up-to-date Download page is http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu and it offers latest and LTS.
getkubuntu/download-lts is obsolete and should be replaced with a redirect to /getkubuntu.

Another page http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download is similarly obsolete (bug 1331060) but is now a "Page has moved" meta http-equiv refresh redirect to /getkubuntu

Perhaps someone should figure out why your later and better http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu page scores poorly in Google search results. I Googled "link:www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download-lts" and found some old pages that link to it but no obvious errors.

Revision history for this message
José Antonio Rey (jose) wrote :

Working on this right now. Expect a fix soon.

Changed in kubuntu-website:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → José Antonio Rey (jose)
Revision history for this message
José Antonio Rey (jose) wrote :

Marking this as incomplete as I couldn't find the broken link.

Could you please point me to where it is? Thanks!

Changed in kubuntu-website:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
skierpage (skierpage) wrote :

I'm not sure what you mean in comment #2. The Google search https://www.google.com/search?q=Download+Kubuntu provided a "Download Kubuntu" link to the obsolete http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download-lts . That page has at least one broken link on it for the cdimage bittorrent, but the fix is to remove all its content and make it a redirect to /getkubuntu

If you mean "What is linking to this obsolete page so that Google presents it in search results?", I don't know.

Revision history for this message
Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

thanks, I've removed the page now, hopefully google will update their index soon

Changed in kubuntu-website:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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