Ken wrote:
> Hi Roy -
>
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:52:20 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>
>>Ken wrote:
>>
>>> The 301s will cause the search engines to reindex with the lower case
>>> names.
>>
>>That's a very interesting idea. It should work for bookmarks, search
>>engines and the like, but... all inbound links will then not correspond to
>>the actual pages and I will probably get panelised. Every time in the past
>>when I attempted to rename pages or move them swiftly (e.g. renaming
>>galleries to reflect on content) I got severely punished...
>
> As long as you are giving 301s with the correct link, rather than
> 404s, I don't think there should really be a problem.
A friend of mine had 301's set up when he moved his domain and he lost his
PageRank entirely, along with traffic in general. I am always scared of
such changes, which will be interpreted differently by different services,
e.g. Technorati.
At the moment I think that there is no solution that involves no cost (in
terms of time or traffic). My site is non-profit (only losses at the
moment, all in the spirit of Open Source), but losing traffic means that
'Linuxers' will fail to find troubleshooting information, which would cause
my heart to sink.
Roy
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