We've had about two blog post point to www.osafoundation.org instead of
our desired chandlerproject.org.
It was suggested we look at ways to minimize this.
The most straightforward solution proposed was to have
www.osafoundation.org redirect to chandlerproject.org. I said I wanted
to think about how that affected our Google Page Rank first.
If you google for "Chandler", you get www.osafoundation.org at the top.
You used to get chandler arizona, so we've gone up in the last year.
This is due to the network of links built up over time which give
www.osafoundation.org a high ranking.
chandlerproject.org is sixth on the list currently since effectively, it
only has gotten linked at all in the last five weeks.
So what will redirecting www.osafoundation.org do to page rank? As I
understand it, you will take on the page ranking of the site you
redirect to. That is, www.osafoundation.org would get the lower ranking
of chandlerproject.org's current page rank, *not* the other way around
where www.osafoundation.org would raise the rank of the currently sixth
chandlerproject.org.
www.osafoundation.org has a page rank of 7, chandlerproject.org has a
page rank of 0. ( http://www.pagerankr.com/ )
I'm pretty conflicted now over what I think we should do with this
information. Outright redirection of www.osafoundation.org is still on
the table. But I don't really want to lose our first-place ranking now.
We might say that if chandlerproject.org is ever going to be first
place for "chandler" over chandler, az, it's going to have to build the
link structure itself over time and we'll get back to number 1
eventually, so let's start now.
I can't find matching chandlerproject.org stats, but for some non-Google
link tracking on www.osafoundation.org, see:
http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osafoundation.org%2F
Ted has said he doesn't think we should sit on this issue and should do
something to avoid bloggers pointing to www.osafoundation.org.
I throw the conversation open to the floor, in the context of the
alleged pagerank behavior I describe above. What should we do about
blogs linking to www.osafoundation.org directly?
-- Jared
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