- From: Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:02:09 -0400
- To: Ryan Lane <rlane32@gmail.com>
- CC: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
On 03/19/2013 12:51 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org > <mailto:lea@w3.org>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’m not sure if I’m in the minority, but I often type WPD URLs by > hand, so typing the /wiki part every time is tedious. I was > wondering if we could set up redirects for the top level paths (e.g. > /css, /html, /svg etc) which redirect to the URL with the /wiki part > so that for example [1] becomes [2]. > > Doug likes the idea but is concerned about potential SEO > implications. I think that if we do it with 301 redirects it will be > fine for SEO, but I might be wrong (?). > Denis, is it possible? I think it could be done with a few rules in > the .htaccess, perhaps without even having to explicitly list all > the top level categories (i.e. test if the path starts with /wiki > and if not, add it). > Everyone else, do you think it's a good idea? > > > This shouldn't hurt SEO. Assuming this structure won't change much in > the future, it seems sane. Changes in the structure could harm SEO if > we're unable to properly map the redirects to the new structure (dead > links are bad). The rewrite rules for this should be easy-ish. > > - Ryan Hi all, I added the redirects directly in the docs apache configuration. Let me know if there's any issue. Denis
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