Reorg of D site

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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.

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.)