Comments on: Search engines, permalinks and whether to let things be http://cleverhack.com/2006/06/27/serach-engines-permalinks-and-whether-to-let-things-be/ Technology, Startups, Internet Marketing Tue, 22 May 2012 04:44:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: joy http://cleverhack.com/2006/06/27/serach-engines-permalinks-and-whether-to-let-things-be/#comment-23774 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:46:57 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2006/06/27/serach-engines-permalinks-and-whether-to-let-things-be/#comment-23774 OT: I can't spell worth a damn if I'm tired. Check out the post URI. OT: I can’t spell worth a damn if I’m tired. Check out the post URI.

]]> by: joy http://cleverhack.com/2006/06/27/serach-engines-permalinks-and-whether-to-let-things-be/#comment-23773 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:44:03 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2006/06/27/serach-engines-permalinks-and-whether-to-let-things-be/#comment-23773 Chris, WordPress already redirects a visitors who asked for a non-existent file or directory to the front page. If it's a bad permalink, then the visitor gets directed to a WordPress generated 404 page within the blog - and technically that's a 302 redirect, which isn't so great for search engine optimization. Chris,

WordPress already redirects a visitors who asked for a non-existent file or directory to the front page.

If it’s a bad permalink, then the visitor gets directed to a WordPress generated 404 page within the blog - and technically that’s a 302 redirect, which isn’t so great for search engine optimization.

]]> by: Chris Lawrence http://cleverhack.com/2006/06/27/serach-engines-permalinks-and-whether-to-let-things-be/#comment-23772 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:33:30 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2006/06/27/serach-engines-permalinks-and-whether-to-let-things-be/#comment-23772 Apache mod_rewrite is your friend... at the very least, you could redirect all of the /archives requests into your front page so people don't get 404s and have a shot to search for what they want. Apache mod_rewrite is your friend… at the very least, you could redirect all of the /archives requests into your front page so people don’t get 404s and have a shot to search for what they want.

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