[LINK] RFC: eCommerce Perspective on Carbon Trading

[Ash Nallawalla]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Clarke
> Sent: Sunday, 8 February 2009 12:11


> [Aside: the domain-name is different from what I usually post.
> 
> [That's because I'm switching to the new location at 09:30 on Monday.
> 
> [After having the site at ANU for almost 15 years, I have some
> trepidations.

I take it that rogerclarke.com is hosted at ANU and will move to another
domain name? Why not move the old domain to a new host? Somehow that does
not sound right.

Maybe rogerclarke.com is the new domain to replace
www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke?

> [Will my much-modified HTML, CSS and PHP measure up?

Yes, provided the version of PHP is the same and same or similar OS.

> Will the redirect work how I think it will?

Use a 301 permanent redirect. (You have done so at
www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke)

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

What concerns me is that the old URL does not show any Google PageRank.
IIRC, it used to be about PR6 for the home page. The value itself does not
mean a lot for ranking purposes but the total absence of it needs to be
investigated.  Unless this is a temporary glitch, 

> 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 the redirects are (eventually) withdrawn?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. A redirect does not cost anything and possibly consumes fewer bytes than
serving a 404. The 301 will let Google count those old inbound links as if
they are to the new one. Googlebot will stop going to the ANU site and keep
coming to the new one.

Be sure to use Google Webmaster Central to tell Google about this new site
and (if you so desire) show it as an Australian site, else it won't show
when people are searching Pages from Australia.  This is the usual problem
with people buying a gTLD domain when their audience is mainly Australian.

Build and submit a sitemap.xml that includes all URLs at the new site so
that Googlebot doesn't have to discover all pages one by one.

> Can I integrate the old and new stats files? 

If both sites use the same package.

> Will the intended wiki-pages work in the new
> context?

If both sites have an identical OS and path environment.

- Ash