[Bf-webcontent] Re-activating list

[Peter Carrero]

Hey, Luca,

Do you mean to have an automated redirect with regex or a manual
1-to-1 cross-reference between the 2 sites?

It seems there are 544 links that would need to be redirected on the
d.b.o/documentation/html page, 1259 on the /htmlI page and 192 on the
/htmlII page. Also, there seems to be no parity between the names of
the pages - for instance, the link to the materials is

d.b,o -> http://download.blender.org/documentation/html/c3312.html

w.b.o -> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Materials

so an automated redirect of

d.b.o/documentation/html/Foo  -- (301) -->  w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo

would make an invalid url of

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:c3312.html

If we do google searches for blender and texture, materials, rigging,
etc, the wiki links seems to consistently show up higher than that the
d.b.o links (and sometimes the d.b.o links don't even show).

Sometimes when revamping websites whose structure changed considerably
between redesigns, what we do is a blanket redirect. So, how about a
redirect from

http://download.blender.org/documentation/.*

to the root of the documentation on the wiki site? (http://wiki.blender.org/)

It seems that d.b.o uses lighthttpd, so I guess that could be done by
sticking the following inside the d.b.o host definition in lighthttpd:

url.redirect = ( "^/documentation/.*$" => "http://wiki.blender.org/")

Thoughts?

--
Peter Carrero
--
"Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of
self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the
power of love."
-Morihei Ueshiba



On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:28 AM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>>
>> For blender.org web pages, this ownership should need to be re-
>> established. But from my memory I think it's like this now:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Download
>> - Ton, Nathan Letwory, Thomas Dinges
>
> as explained in [1], I'd love to tackle the documentation part at
> http://download.blender.org/documentation/.
>
> As said there I'd like to set proper *permanent* redirects b.org ->
> wiki on [2] and [3] (and subpages).
>
>
> To explain, I think this will greatly help to increase the ranking of
> wiki pages.
> Let's make an abstract example (d.b.o = download.blender.org,
> w.b.o=wiki.blender.org).
>
> If we search for "blender documentation foo" we will probably find:
>
> d.b.o/documentation/htmlI/Foo
> and
> w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo
>
> These two pages are then competing for the best ranking and this is a
> waste, considering that d.b.o/documentation/htmlI/Foo is obsolete.
>
> So I'd place a permanent redirect (301 redirect) like:
>
> d.b.o/documentation/html/Foo  -- (301) -->  w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo
>
>
> This will let search engines know that d.b.o/documentation/html/Foo is
> no more and the correspondant page from now on and forever will be
> w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo, so that w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo would pop up
> in the search results.
>
> This would be crucial for the SEO we're trying to do on the wiki.
>
>
> Regards,
> Luca
>
>
> [1] http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2011-May/003696.html
> [2] http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/
> [3] http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/
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