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> I also spent a little time on redirecting the addresses of [...] my old website to [...] the new one. Failing to do this would have cost me a lot in search en
by kevincox 5y ago
> I also spent a little time on redirecting the addresses of [...] my old website to [...] the new one. Failing to do this would have cost me a lot in search engine rankings since all the incoming links collected over the years would be gone [...]
I was disappointing that the main reason that they valued keeping past links alive was SEO. To me the innate benefit of not breaking links and bookmarks on your readers (or future readers) should be enough.
- mkosmul 5y agoThis is a very good point - good you brought it up. I do care about not breaking links, though I did not mention that in the text. Actually, you can still reach my site by using the address it used even before the previous one, and there are still links on the web using that very old address, thanks to two levels of redirects.