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Redirect the Index page #16

Closed sannon closed 9 years ago

sannon commented 9 years ago

Can we get the below redirection set up? The first link is what shows up in google searches etc.

http://thegovlab.org/govlab-index/
redirect to http://thegovlab.org/observatory/the-govlab-index/

Thank you!

luisdaniel commented 9 years ago

There is no way to remove "observatory" from that URL since that page is listed under "The Observatory" parent category.

sannon commented 9 years ago

Nope, not what I meant -- I don't want to remove "observatory" from the URL.

This specific URL needs to redirect to the observatory URL: http://thegovlab.org/govlab-index/

If you click it, you'll see it currently goes to a weirdly formatted page.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Luis notifications@github.com wrote:

There is no way to remove "observatory" from that URL since that page is listed under "The Observatory" parent category.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/GovLab/GovLab.org-Site/issues/16#issuecomment-63524486 .

Shruti H. Sannon Research Associate, The GovLab Master of Arts in Media, Culture, and Communication, 2014 New York University 646-708-4447 | shruti.sannon@gmail.com

luisdaniel commented 9 years ago

Redirecting is an involved process, potentially dangerous, and sets a dangerous precedent (soon everyone will want their link redirected, then we'll have the issue of keeping track of what redirects where). Changing the URL would've been much easier, but it can't be done.

However: Your initial problem is that the /govlab-index/ link is ranked first by google. This is because of meta tags, page content, and other SEO stuff. If you redirect the link, google will eventually flip the search results and you'll end up with your original problem.

Instead of doing this redirect workaround, fix the SEO of your page. Click Edit Page and there is a section on SEO at the bottom of the Edit Page page. Fill that form out with the appropriate tags and meta information, then click Update. The change will not be immediate. You'll have to wait until Google re-scans our site and re-indexes the page. I have no idea how long this would take.