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Redirecting Foley
October 13, 2006
You know, I don't doubt that Mark Foley is in need of some serious redirection, but I'm just not sure he is being redirected properly.
www.house.gov/foley/ redirects to clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/Florida_16th/index.html . Now I guess that makes sense, but why just temporarily redirect with the 302? Are they expecting a triumpant return of 'Ole Maf54? I think it would be a pretty safe bet to go ahead with the permanent 301 redirect and declare that the honorable Mr. Foley will not be returning.
And www.markfoley.com/ is 302 redirecting to . . . well . . . almost nothing. Again, that makes sense, but why go temporary?
Google takes these redirects very seriously. If you temporarily redirect a page (not that type of Page), you are telling Google that the page will return. Most often, that will lead Google to keep that page in the index, continue to rank it based on former information, and continue to display the old information when ranking it.
Here's why it matters.
The first and fourth results, on both sides of wiki, are the Foley urls with their former titles and descriptions. Do you think they really meant to hang on to those results?
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posted by Tom Lustina at October 13, 2006 03:54 PM
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