On Monday 15 June 2009 13:11:44 Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Yes, that's a 301. What do you mean by "no luck"? > > > > It didn't help. Google eventually lost the page rank for the old domain > > before the redirect and I had to slowly regain it. > > The only thing that you could have done here was to make sure that > there was a redirect long before the old domain went cold. >
I did. But it didn't help. Did you mean "long after"? > > Not people - mostly bots: > > > > {{{ > > 64.34.195.145 - - [07/May/2009:07:12:18 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 694 > > "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1; aggregator:Spinn3r > > (Spinn3r 3.0); http://spinn3r.com/robot) Gecko/20021130" VLOG=- > > }}} > > > > Most of the lines there are like this. > > Unless they get real annoying, I treat bots as users. At least they > are honest enough to not forge an IE UA. > Yes, and I don't want bots to find anything on sf.org except for a link to www.shlomifish.org. As far as I'm concerned sf.org should not exist. > >> Then port your livejournal RSS feed onto your sf.org domain. > > > > I already have it included as the main page: > > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > > > With older items on the old news page: > > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/old-news.html > > Very good, and I see that you have an RSS feed as well. But get rid of > the Atom feed! What is it there for? Do users really need to make that > choice? Why don't you give them a choice of HTML 4.1 or XHTML 1.0 for > the pages as well? Some people prefer Atom, and some clients only support RSS. Most people can make either choice reasonably (or they are not aware of the web-feeds technology at all). LiveJournal.com gives me both, so I point to both of them. > > > I suppose I can also mirror the feed itself on http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > . I'll implement this suggestion when I'm in the mood. > > No, you _don't_ want different content on www.sf.org as on sf.org! > Either serve the same content (and thus have the pagerank divided > between two pages) or 301 one to the other. I want only http://www.shlomifish.org/ to exist. I want nothing on sf.org, and so far it seems to work. I don't get many hits to sf.org. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://xrl.us/bjn7p God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il