[LINK] moving a site was Re: RFC: eCommerce Perspective on Carbon Trading

[Lea de Groot]

On 08/02/2009, at 11:11 AM, Roger Clarke wrote:

> Will the redirect work how I think it will?

I often use:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
to check headers are doing what I wanted them to.

Could you not change over sometime today, when presumably traffic will  
be lower, so you can madly make corrections on broken things before  
the announcement?
Or are you reliant on 9-5 university personnel making the change?

> Will Google pick up the new site
> and index it quickly enough?

It will be based on your current crawl rate, but if the redirects are  
working, it will be fine.

> Will the thousands of people who have
> hotlinks to the old site actually update the ones that matter before
> the redirects are (eventually) withdrawn?

No. You'll have to hassle them.
Your logs (if you have decent hosting) will tell you who are the most  
important to hassle :)
How long do you have?

warmly,
Lea
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Lea de Groot
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