[Python-Dev] moving content around (Re: http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Feb 13 22:03:07 CET 2006

On 2/13/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the > importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get > transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the > context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is not > going to help PageRank of the new page.) so what's the best way to move stuff around?

I don't know; my point was to avoid needless moving rather than giving a best practice for moving.

wikipedia seems to display the content from the "new" location under the old URL, but with a small blurb at the top that says "redirected from ", e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FScottFitzgerald (not sure if it's done that way to avoid HTTP roundtrips, or for some obscure googlerank reason...)

Can't say I understand that particular example. Wikipedia has different requirements though; there are aliases (e.g. homonyms, synonyms) that won't go away. For python.org we're looking at minimizing the URL space churn.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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