On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:03 AM, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/8/26 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>: >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:31 AM, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Adding to the (lack of) redirection problem between the old and the >>> new URL expressed on other threads, there are other problems reported >>> by users. The first one is that forum notifications still arrive with >>> only the old URL. Also, there are users experimenting problems with >>> automatic log-in not working on the new URL. >>> >>> Another point that came to my mind is what happens with web crawler >>> bots registered on the forums: I think that google, yahoo and all the >>> others are still logging on (and indexing) the old URLs and ignoring >>> the new ones. In fact, when you perform a web search on google, for >>> example, about AOO all results that point to the forums show the old >>> URL... >>> >> >> Are we exposing two different URL's for the forums, with the same >> content? > > Exactly. You can enter the forum from both, the user.service... and > the forum.openoffice... addresses. >
There are command line tools that can check this, but also anyone can put a URL here: http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php It is not showing any redirection. > > If so that is bad for Google. It could penalize the forums >> in search results due to the "duplicate content penalty" (essentially >> it looks spammy to have identical content at multiple different >> URL's). >> >> See: >> http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html >> >> The preferred way is to either: >> >> 1) Redirect from the old URL to the new URL >> >> or >> >> 2) Use the re="canonical" directive to ;et Google know what the >> preferred URL is; >> http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html >> >> >>> Could a redirection solve all this problems at once? >>> >>> Regards >>> Ricardo
