Re: vim update

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:31:20AM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

Hi Bram,
> > The same thing (.htaccess on apache) would also work on
> > http://a-a-p.org . Meta-directs (what is there actually) can be
> > evil, I had to learn the hard way recently.
> 
> What is so bad about meta stuff?

e.g.
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

(see Method 2)

Anyway, in the http://a-a-p.org case, there probably won't result
bad things out of it, it's still not the way how it should get
done I think.


My personal notes about it below (may ignore so):

Search-Engines actually ignore them, or even see something bad at
them: 'ah. someone wants to show me (robot) this, but the user
shall see something different'.

Search engines will still index/cache that thing there, it would
not when there is some permanent redirect.

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help there are
also quite some articles about it.

I personally had somekind of 'hell' recently, because I was using
those redirects, assuming the robots would understand them and
behave accordingly. They didn't. That whole thing ended up that
google had the same pages on the old and new domain, and therefore
sent the new one to the end of the search-results (500+) because
of the 'same content filter' or so. Actually after 3 month now,
it's ok (puhhh) - it removed those old pages from the cache
finally.

Additionally permanent redirects, be it .htaccess or php, transfer
the 'value' of the old pages to the new ones, just in case.  That
workes quite nice, had to do that recently ;) (Also not a matter
in a-a-p.org so).

Cheers
marco





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