Comments on: I Think I Messed Up a Client’s Website http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/390 Building Better Web Sites Together, For A Better World Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:27:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lisa Ditlefsen http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/390#comment-15819 Lisa Ditlefsen Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:58:43 +0000 http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/390#comment-15819 Hey, So know where you are coming from on this one! Actually wrote a blog post about the importance of using a 301 redirect this week as I got burnt when one of my clients changed hosting from Finland to the UK. Should have been an easy job, didn't discover it before I looked at the client website and noticed their Google PageRank had dropped from 6 to 0!! Yikes. Then checked Google Analytics and their Google Organic referrals had gone down by 70%, ouch! Luckily all was not lost as the total stats were correct it's just I have no clue which SE the referrals are from..it's a mess. But it got me kicking buts about the use of 301 re-direct and .htaccess, I don't think the programmers will forget that in a hurry =) Hey,
So know where you are coming from on this one! Actually wrote a blog post about the importance of using a 301 redirect this week as I got burnt when one of my clients changed hosting from Finland to the UK. Should have been an easy job, didn’t discover it before I looked at the client website and noticed their Google PageRank had dropped from 6 to 0!! Yikes. Then checked Google Analytics and their Google Organic referrals had gone down by 70%, ouch! Luckily all was not lost as the total stats were correct it’s just I have no clue which SE the referrals are from..it’s a mess. But it got me kicking buts about the use of 301 re-direct and .htaccess, I don’t think the programmers will forget that in a hurry =)

]]> By: Mike Cherim http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/390#comment-15445 Mike Cherim Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:52:46 +0000 http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/390#comment-15445 Definitely something to keep in mind; there's a good lesson in this. Thanks. Mike Definitely something to keep in mind; there’s a good lesson in this. Thanks.

Mike

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