Besides being confuling to people it will lower your ranking in the Google search. It is
better to only have one copy on the web,
When Google finds duplicate content it lowers tha ranking of both sites.
Another thing that will lower the ranking is of you can get to a site using www and also
without. Even just using one address someone will link the other way and got both into
Google. That can be fixed in the .htaccess file so only one will work. Just Google
"www or no wwww" for more on that.
Rootsweb did not allow .htaccess files for your account. If they did that would make a
move easy if you keep all the same file names, One line in there would redirect a request
for any page to the same page in the new location. For more info on redirects just google
301 premently moved.
Ray
----- Original Message ----
From: Pat Sabin <psabin(a)bellsouth.net>
To: ctgen(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CTGEN] Moved pages for Hartford Co & New London Co
I still have everything mirrored at RW, but I agree that it's confusing to visitors
for both sites to come up on search engines.
Maureen, have you found a good "go to" person at
Ancestry.Com who can help town
coordinators with their passwords? There are several who are OK leaving their sites on
RW, but have lost their password info along the way. They've been through the normal
channels of requesting lost passwords, but have not gotten a response. They can't
update their pages.
Pat
New London Co.
----- Original Message -----
From: Maureen Mead
To: ctgen(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CTGEN] Moved pages for Hartford Co & New London Co
I heard from the help desk folks at
Rootsweb.Ancestry.com, recently, and was informed that
according to their AUP/acceptable use policy, I could not post a link to the new site from
Rootsweb. (They called it a redirect, although it was not an automatic redirect.) I wrote
back to ask how I might redress the situation.
The gentleman kindly requested that I reload the site back on to their server and just
make a note that the original site had changed to the new site.
That's way too confusing, so I will delete the RW index pages this week, along with
many thanks to them for their generosity, over the years.
Just a head's up, to let you know that you may receive a similar notice and that it
might be better for you to entirely remove the pages on Rootsweb. At no time were they
demanding or rude--they just asked me to follow their "AUP/Acceptable Use
Policy."
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