- From: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:39:55 +0200
- To: Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>
- Cc: Ryan Lane <rlane32@gmail.com>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Yay! Thank you Denis, you rock! Lea Verou W3C developer relations http://w3.org/people/all#lea ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ @leaverou On Mar 20, 2013, at 15:02, Denis Ah-Kang wrote: > 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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