[Yanel-dev] yanel.org

[Michael Wechner]

Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> Forgot to ask again: how do we want to go forward with this? (See my 
> previous mail reproduced below for the explanations asked for.)

we just have to do it ;-) but honestly speaking I currently have some 
tasks with higher prios, for example get Hudson back running.
But as soon as this will be done, I am happy to assist with the tasks below.

Cheers

Michi
>
> Cheers,
>    Guillaume
>
> Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>>> Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
>>>> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have activated yanel.org
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.yanel.org/
>>>>
>>>> Great! :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Please give it a try. It might be a problem re editing the 
>>>>> website, because the realm is using
>>>>>
>>>>> yanel.wyona.org
>>>>>
>>>>> as reverse proxy entry or rather the browser might get redirected 
>>>>> to this domain and it will work, but
>>>>> it might be confusing.
>>>>
>>>> Well, it works but the redirection certainly feels fishy! ;)
>>>>
>>>> What about using //yanel.org everywhere (and redirecting 
>>>> permanently //yanel.wyona.org and //www.yanel.org to it)?
>>>
>>> you mean on pages where these links are set?
>>
>> Well, I meant we should make Apache permanently redirect these URLs 
>> to the "canonical" ones, not actually changing any page, although we 
>> should also do that gradually if we decide to do it. This should not 
>> be a lot a work as most links are probably relative, but there are 
>> also links from text files and such that are absolute.
>>
>>
>>>> We should really do permanent redirects for all alternatives 
>>>> adresses else it may water down our rankings by search engines...
>>>
>>> we wouldn't want that ;-) but I guess you need to explain to me once 
>>> more
>>
>> Well, I am not sure all search engines can readily understand that 
>> http://yanel.wyona.org/ and http://yanel.org/ really is the same 
>> content without us providing any kind of redirection between them.
>> So you end up with results from both sites when doing searches (I saw 
>> that happen to Joost website on Google for example, with identical 
>> pages from both domains with and without "www").
>> And of course if the links are not deemed equivalent, your pagerank 
>> just goes down!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Guillaume
>