David Crossley wrote:
> Ross Gardler wrote:
>
>>I just noticed that the changes in the Forrest site have resulted in a
>>complete loss of our google ranking. That is we currently have a rank of
>>"n/a". Prior to the redirects we had a very healthy 7.
>>
>>Since our redirect will change every time we release a new version this
>>loss of ranking will happen with each release.
>>
>>Of course, the Google engine still has the old indexes and these links
>>will be redirected when the user arrives. My concern is that over time
>>we will suffer because of this.
>>
>>I think we need to change the website so that we have an index.html page
>>that is consitent through all releases. However, I do not claim to fully
>>understand the Google ranking algorithm, so please correct me if I am wrong.
>
>
> I wonder if we just need to use "AliasMatch" directives
> for apache httpd rather than the RedirectMatch that we are
> currently using.
I'm no httpd whizz, nor google whizz for that matter, but if the
AliasMatch means that the URL still appears, in the client, as
http://forrest.apache.org then I think this will work.
Ross
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