Re:301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)
by miseg on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:45AM
(#11133383)
It's easy to live your life to keep Google happy. 301 redirects have been an important part of online website life.
But then I do accept this perspective (if it's within your call to take this risk). Just don't 301-redirect it. Let the search engines figure it out for themselves.
If a user has a bookmark to an old resource, then it's a liability for you to try to keep your web of 301s working.
Re:301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)
by rileymat2 on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:26PM
(#11134867)
I would say links are a bigger problem than bookmarks. For instance stack overflow answer links to apple or msdn references, are really annoying if they die.
But then I do accept this perspective (if it's within your call to take this risk). Just don't 301-redirect it. Let the search engines figure it out for themselves.
If a user has a bookmark to an old resource, then it's a liability for you to try to keep your web of 301s working.
KISS!