[Web4lib] Re: Newbie question -- URL Redirection

[Michael]

I agree with Tim. There are legtimate short-term reasons why we need
redirects in Internet/Web infrastructure bag o' tricks. However, a site with
a set *new* domain, in a reasonable period of time, should migrate the
content and remove the redirect. AFAIR, even the RFCs about redirection so
indicate. It was intended to be a helping hand from point A to point B, not
a lingering or permanent solution.

For what it's worth, happy holidays,
DrWeb aka Michael

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:

> Google—at least the Google servers I'm drawing from—has indexed the top
> page:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=http://sites.google.com/site/beadsociety&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
>
> It has not indexed lower pages, as far as I can see. But Google
> indexing is purposefully unclear--they don't want any old spam site to
> suddenly jump into Google. The best way to get indexed is to raise
> your PageRank, by getting people—friends, blogs, other bead sites—to
> link to you. PageRank also affects how deep Google will crawl, and how
> often too.
>
> Google will not index the a domain that just redirects. Ultimately,
> you should get the site on your domain, if possible.
>
> Tim
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:55 PM, T Mac <terrannews at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I just did this recently for a non-library-related site (
> http://www.beadsocietyfl.org) which was built using Google Sites. I
> registered the domain through godaddy.com, which had a really simple
> process to follow to set up the redirect and was very inexpensive, but I'm
> sure there are many other hosts that will do redirects inexpensively and
> easily.
> >
> > Some problems I have encountered - 1) Google does not seem to want to
> index the site (despite the fact that it's built using a Google product and
> hosted on their servers). I have submitted it several times to be indexed,
> and it has been ignored. I've tried using the beadsocietyfl.org URL as
> well as the real URL which is http://sites.google.com/site/beadsociety/.
> 2) Some people use browsers which are set to block redirects, and if they
> aren't web-savvy, they tend to think the site is broken. Nothing against AOL
> or its users, but most of the problems that I've heard about have been from
> people using AOL's built-in browser. People using AOL with a 3rd party
> browser such as IE or Firefox don't seem to have any problems. I haven't had
> a chance to thoroughly investigate this though.
> >
> > Terran McCanna
> > Hunt Library, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
>



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