Re: [Bacula-devel] Google indexes

[Dan L. <da...@la...>]

On 30 May 2006 at 11:07, Kern Sibbald wrote:

> 
> > Google does not like our website.
> >
> > Try this search:
> >
> > site:bacula.org sparse
> 
> Well, I'm not too surprised. The site name is www.bacula.org not
> bacula.org. I have nothing against fixing it, but it is a hosted
> machine, which means that I don't control the apache server.

Since I wrote this, things have cleared up considerably.  I should 
have explicity stated the problem I saw.

> When I use site:www.bacula.org sparse, everything works fine.

Yes, I agree.

> Is fixing this really critical?  If so, how about me adding a DNS
> entry for bacula.org?

A DNS entry already exists for bacula.org.

> > Many of the URLs do not work.  Many give 404s.  In fact, I could not
> > find the URL I wanted:
> >
> > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html

There's the problem I wanted to fix... Google had many invalid URLS 
for the website.  They seem to have been flushed now.

> > I'm not sure how to fix this.
> >
> > One suggestion: redirect http://bacula.org/ to
> > http://www.bacula.org/

I still suggest we do this though.  

> >
> > That will reduce the number of hits in half.  Here's how I do that:
> >
> > <VirtualHost *>
> >         ServerAdmin     da...@ex...
> >         ServerName      freshports.org
> >
> >    Redirect            permanent / http://www.freshports.org/
> >
> >    ErrorLog       /var/log/freshports.org-error.log
> >    CustomLog   /var/log/freshports.org-access.log combined
> > </VirtualHost>
> >
> > I can explain more tomorrow. gtg.


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