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[Roger Clarke]

G'day Lea

>On 08/02/2009, at 11:11 AM, Roger Clarke wrote:
>>  Will the redirect work how I think it will?

At 11:38 +1000 8/2/09, Lea de Groot wrote:
>I often use:
>http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
>to check headers are doing what I wanted them to.

I'll use those tomorrow!


>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?

Yep, precisely.


>>  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.

Whew!  (The current crawl rate appears to be pretty high).


>>  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  the redirects are (eventually) withdrawn?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?

Quite a while.  By moving early (with at least 18 months of Vis 
Prof'dom left), I gain breathing space.

Thanks!  ...  Roger


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