Reorg of D site

[Walter Bright]

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> Walter,
> 
> Again I just want to mention that Google assigns a number ("pagerank") 
> to every page it indexes.  When a page is linked to by a reputable 
> source, the number increases.
> 
> META Refresh redirects will get this page rank, but are useless, and 
> will be badly indexed for phrases.  Also, people will not continue to 
> link to these meta refresh pages.
> 
> So, you're splitting potential page rank (something you want to 
> maximize) in pieces by using that sort of redirect.  If at all possible, 
> I strongly suggest using a 301 redirect (which is a "permanent" redirect 
> and tells Google to give the page rank to the resultant page.)
> 
> If you want, I can provide further documentation on this phenomenon from 
> google.com.

Ok, sure! I didn't know this.