Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does)
by avlesh-singh on Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:09PM
(#3487052)
Of course there is zero incentive for anyone to do it. And if everyone chose to link the way Quora does, you get a Google Analytics dashboard which cannot tell you what all URL's are sending traffic to your site/blog. I find it really difficult to imagine.
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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does)
by mcgwiz on Friday January 20, 2012 @03:49PM
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The long term effect would be that websites can no longer use referrer as a metric. What difference would that make? HTTP resources (webpages) shouldn't change semantic meaning depending on the referrer anyway. Doing so is arguably an unintended use (or abuse) of HTTP.
Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does)
by avlesh-singh on Saturday January 21, 2012 @01:15AM
(#3492785)
Absolutely! And see the funny reasons people have been citing in favor of such an act - http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-redirect-to-URLs-in-a-wa...