Re: Website upload

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Paul" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Website upload


> On 03/07/2017 05:47 AM, Davide Liessi wrote:
>
> > Maybe an HTTP permanent redirect (308) should be added instead of a 
> > symlink, see
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#3xx_Redirection
>
> +1
>
> Best policy would be whenever a page changes its file name we should 
> create a permanent redirect to the new page/file/name.  Search engines can 
> then follow these redirects and transfer their ranking data for the old 
> page to the new page.
>
> (The old GSOC page is likely still at the top of the search results 
> because there are links to it out on the web and the search engines use 
> those to rank that page relative to others.)
>
> Cheers,
> -Paul


Could this be done as part of the website build process (e.g. adding a gsoc 
source file back in and configuring the system to make it into a redirect), 
or would it have to be done manually?

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Phil Holmes