RE: [cobalt-users] More Comments on the Lists [SCANNED]

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, it's actually fairly easy to do, though it'll use a whole bunch of
> machine cycles for a while.

I know it's easy, just wondered if it had actually occured to anyone with
everything else that's going on!

> > Otherwise it could cause immense confusion to
> > anyone finding them on Google or whereever.
>
> People using google will probably find a lot of references to the old
> list-server ; they'll be dead links, and people will then try the
> Google archive, which will have old information.
>
> Unfortunately it takes a lot of time for Google to drop old links.

Agreed if they are not made aware of the situation.

> But the good news is there will be new links, and with a bit of
> crosslinking from the community they'll actually make it into Google
> fairly quickly.  My changes to nobaloney.net get into Google quickly,
> and as soon as the site is moved I'd create links at nobaloney.net to
> the new list-archives.  I hope others will too.

I'm quite happy to paste something into the infolinkelectronics.co.uk site -
we are page rank 4 and get reindexed fairly regularly - maybe someone should
knock up some sort of cobalt users group graphics that people can use as a
link through.

> > Does anything need to be done, apart from the normal submission
> > method, with Google etc to alert them to the move?
>
> Not really.  They're way to big to care about one site, no matter how
> important, unless that site is spending a lot of money with them.

Some of the others maybe but Google if emailed always seem pretty fair about
changing stuff, certainly going by the previous correspondence I've had with
them and I've never spent anything with them <grin>

Phil


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