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Re: Accessibility of redirects

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Mar 7, 2007 3:30AM

Jared Smith wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Penny Roberts < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Should the redirect go to the new home page or the page that directly
>> corresponds to the old destination?
>
> You'll likely get a number of diverse opinions on these questions, but
> here's my opinion.
> The pages should redirect to the page that directly corresponds with
> the old destination. This should be done with a server-side redirect
> that sends a permanent redirect message to the web browser and search
> engines.


Sadly that isn't within my purview: I'm a teeny tiny fish in a very big
pond. The only person that I have access to is the guy that set up the
redirect on the home page... and he just used a meta-refresh :-(

Penny