Reorg of D site

Unknown W. Brackets unknown at simplemachines.org
Wed Jan 23 12:45:48 PST 2008


Yes, a 301 should work like that (as would 302.)

-[Unknown]


Jason House Wrote:

> Unknown W. Brackets Wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Will this also make browsers update the URL in the location bar?  I don't like how (currently) typing in a url without /2.0/ or /1.0/ does not end up showing which page you ended up at
> 
> 
> > 
> > If you want, I can provide further documentation on this phenomenon from 
> > google.com.
> > 
> > That said, I'm glad to see this reorganization, and I'm sure it will 
> > help people searching the site.
> > 
> > -[Unknown]
> > 
> > 
> > Walter Bright wrote:
> > > As some of you may have noticed, the D 2.0 stuff has all moved into 
> > > digitalmars.com/d/2.0, instead of digitalmars.com/d. The original files 
> > > have been replaced with redirects (phew, that was a lot of tedious work).
> > > 
> > > The benefit of this is that the searches are now targeted instead of 
> > > picking up the whole digitalmars site. (It took about 24 hours for 
> > > google to reindex the site.)
> 



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