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. --David
