On Sep 6, 10:41 pm, Denis Haskin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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).
Agreed. The issue is how to implement those redirects. mod_rewrite
seems to have two problems. The documentation basically says that this
stuff is really complicated, don't expect to understand it in a day
but more to the point the Passenger documentation says don't use
mod_rewrite and mod_rails (passenger's implementation) together or
everything falls appart.
Basically, what I need it to take for instance ...
pollenceramics.com/artist.html and point the inbound client to
pollenceramics.com/artist.
I'd expect that a routing expert would be able to do that. I'm
definitely not that expert. I'm trying to make what strikes me as some
other simple routing changed and they have sent me running to the
documentation in tears.
> 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.
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