From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CE413838B for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7306A21C02A; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (sub5.mail.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A54921C005 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367223DC06D for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:00:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h=to:from :subject:message-id:date:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; s=libertytrek.org; bh=1+SAffUZ28sx0cf N1kk9Y9aPg20=; b=DYhWHVqRcJkAudMOKc8rp4gbezJmnAFUKq/Y7UJHlTmMCJF vuC9VjTNcv4fC6kynq/Vn+6b3zQHvBhk5btvtv++f6sISHVX+a/0f6h7JqdHmFkX WuDiPKdpIOEAEKgTAQTZaZBG0pfacc44WVlDTKVkQlkDgK8tVAph827Yin1g= Received: from [192.168.1.110] (unknown [159.63.145.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 167803DC05E for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:00:59 -0700 (PDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Tanstaafl Subject: [gentoo-user] Major site redesign, SEO, and 301 redirects Message-ID: <560AEDFA.9000706@libertytrek.org> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:00:58 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e195790e-c7db-4686-a194-d6f5e72a40bf X-Archives-Hash: 14e74c9ee997bb722c25005fe73b01df Hi all, I am not a web (or SEO) guy, but I manage our DNS and have for a long time. The boss has contracted with a web development company to do a full redesign of our website. Our website has hundreds of thousands of pages, and years of SEO behind it. The guys who was her until recently was adamant that we must be very carefl with the redesign so as not to totally break SEO, and possibly getting blacklisted by Google. The web developers are insisting that they need full access to our DNS (hosted by DNSMadeEasy), and the only reason I can think of for this is they plan on setting up HTTP redirects (DNSMadeEasy equivalent of a 301 redirect) for these pages - but hundreds of thousands of them? Wouldn't this be better done at the web server level? Or am I just ignorant? Would love to hear experiences (good and bad), and a recommendation for what I should do. thanks