On 22/07/10 15:33, Ryan Newton wrote: [snip]
So is the 6.12.2 target accruing pagerank rather than the latest one? Even if someone links the /latest/ URL? If that's the problem, would it fix things just to make latest/ a full directory structure in its own right (a clone rather than redirect)?
For the URLs under 'latest/' the server returns a "301 Moved Permanently" response, which is used to indicate that the original URL is no longer in use and that references to it should be updated to the target URL [1]. Hence, search engines will only index the targets of the redirects and ignore the original URLs [2]. Using a "302 Found" redirect instead might produce better results, at least for Google [2]. [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2 [2] http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/when-to-use-a-301-vs-302-redirect/ -- Robin KAY