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roscoe

More options May 12, 10:05 am

From: roscoe <roscoetra...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:05:55 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, May 12 2008 10:05 am

Subject: Re: Potential Indexing Problems from Comprehensive Change in Page URLs

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Brian, Dan, Chris, Alec and any future responders.

Thanks a bunch for your insights and help with our major website
overhaul. The devil is truly in the details, eh?

The development firm is building the site on a windows platform so we
won't be able to employ the standard 301 redirects via the .htaccess
file but I know from looking into this previously there is an
equivalent windows script protocol. My job will be on the testing end
to check their work to make sure the redirects perform as I expect.

Also appreciated the reminder on the 404 page. We need to have a
customized one and have Google Analytics code installed on the page so
we can track entrances to the page.

-Roscoe

On May 10, 6:54 am, foliovision <clientc...@emailias.com> wrote:

> Hello Dan,

> Actually our .htaccess redirects are more or less a script, as they
> are carefully crafted on regular expressions. You are right - if you
> get something wrong, it is all extremely messy. But a script can also
> go wrong. Careful spidering tests are essential in both cases.

> That's a good idea to add link recovery into the workflow.

> Running a tight website is a very long list of things to check and
> correct. It would be great to have an automatic tool which checked and
> fixed all of this. Sometimes it looks like webwork will have to the
> way of farming - larger plantations.

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