I'm not an SEO expert, but I am about 99% sure if you switch from the .html to non-.html URLs, you are going to want to have permanent redirects in place or your ranking is going to take a hit for a while (not to mention users who have bookmarks, other sites with links to you, etc).
dwh Confused about Rails wrote: > Appreciate the mod_rewrite suggestions. That will clearly solve the > problem of the broken inbound links. > > However, I need to do some more research on what Google counts as an > inbound link. The Google page ranking may just want to see what its > always seen i.e. <site name>/<page name>.html or the ranking software > may be clever enough to figure out that pollenceramics.com/artist > still works and is accepted as an inbound link. > > I certainly take the point that its much better to follow the rails > convention of <site name>/<page name> and forget the .html. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
