Maybe it's a little OT, but I'll give it try anyway....
I was asked to maintain and further develop an already existing small
company's web site.
I know the golden rule of "eternal" URIs, but in this case changing them
cannot be avoided as they were badly chosen when thwe site was first
delevoped: URLs with spaces, typos, etc. So I have to use new URLs and
put the content in them.
This causes two problems:
- 404 errors for users who have bookmarked this company's web pages
- (and *most importantly*) current pages are indexed on Google and other
search engines. Changing URLs abruptly creates obvious search engine
positioning and ranking problems.
Simple, some may say, there are *various* URL redirection techniques hat
are both transparent to the users and well accepted by search engines
(particularly 301 - Permanent redirection). Unfortunately, I don't have
access to the web server config file and, as this is a rather cheap
hosting, even though it runs on apache, I cannot cerate a .htaccess file
and put my redirections there.
Apart from changing hosting provider (which cannot be done at the
moment) or using html or javascript redirection (which is a big no no
for search engines) how can I solve this problem?
Max
Mar 28 '07
13  4339 
David E. Ross wrote:
Create an ASCII text file named .htaccess (or use the existing
.htaccess). (Yes, the name starts with a period.) In that file, put
the following:
ErrorDocument 404 /my404.html
Install .htaccess in the root of the domain (where you have installed
my404.html).
Yes, the server is Apache, but as I said, for some reasons, our hosting
provider's ftp server prevents me from uploading a file called .htaccess
or ranaming a file to .htaccess after having uploaded it with another name
This is what I get
ftpren htaccess .htaccess
350 RNFR accepted - file exists, ready for destination
550 Prohibited file name: .htaccess
ftp>
BTW, If I could use .htaccess, the problem would be easily solved: I
probably would not create a custom error 404 page, but rather use the
redirect directive within .htaccess. A few lines like this:
Redirect permanent olduri.html newuri.html
Unfortunately, I can't. I wrote to the hosting provider tech support.
Waiting for an answer.
Massimo
On 28 Mar, 16:14, Massimo Fabbri <mfabbri_SAY_NO _TO_SP...@tisca li.it>
wrote:
Apart from changing hosting provider
Send 301 redirects by configuring your .htaccess
Gain access to .htaccess by having your host enable it, or by moving
host (it's _that_ significant).
Delay any major site changes until you have this access.
Scripsit Massimo Fabbri:
Yes, I guess I have to
create new pages with better URLs and duplicate them with the old
names. There's only one concern to this: according to this article
(http://tinyurl.com/2yodj9)
That is, http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/p...-content.shtml
the rather new Google duplicate content
penalty applies to pages on the same w b site too: "Clarificat ion:
there is a real duplicate content penalty for content that is
duplicated with minor or no variation across the pages of a single
site."
The page you mention isn't brand new: it's dated December 2005.
I don't think the "clarificat ion" is much more than a myth, even though the
Google page http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=35769
might be construed as supporting it:
"Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially
duplicate content."
This is one of many warnings, and it hardly means much more than the
principle that you cannot improve your ranking using duplication. That is, N
copies of identical content is treated as one page, basically picking up one
of the copies. It would be pointless for Google to "punish" for duplication
so that duplicated content gets less attention than a simple page.
Anyway, if you think this is a serious risk, and you still want to change
URLs of existing pages (why, really?), then you can change the URLs and
leave just "HTML redirection" pages (with meta tags and links) at the old
URLs.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:52:52 +0200 from Massimo Fabbri
<mf************ *********@tisca li.it>:
Stan Brown wrote:
Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:14:10 +0200 from Massimo Fabbri
<mf************ *********@tisca li.it>:
as this is a rather cheap
hosting, even though it runs on apache, I cannot cerate a .htaccess file
and put my redirections there.
Why not? What's to stop you from uploading a .htaccess just as you'd
upload any other file?
I tried. It gests rejected by the ftp server. I thought it was a problem
of my client, I tried with command line ftp: same outcome.
Finally I tried uploading a file called htacces and tehn rename it .htacces.
Result:
ftpren htaccess .htaccess
350 RNFR accepted - file exists, ready for destination
550 Prohibited file name: .htaccess
ftp>
Wow!
I agree with those who said: if you can't get this fixed, get a
different host. There are too many low-cost hosts out there for you
to have to put up with this nonsense.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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