Moving ThinkNOLA
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I am considering moving the WordPress blog on ThinkNOLA so that it is the landing page and changing the URL structure. This is to create smaller URLs that are easier to cut and paste into email.
What has kept me from putting WordPress as the base is that I always imagined a different application there. An application that still exists primarily in my imagination. I’ll let that go. When the time comes, I can incorporate the existing URL structure into the new application. This is aligns with the attitude that content and archival is important, and that new code should respect the cumulative efforts of the user base.
Now, I am concerned that redirections will suck out some of my Google Juice, especially on the few articles that are rock stars in my mind. Articles about AmericaSpeaks are slipping anyway.
Ryan Vis said something about how by virtue of being a redirection, the landing page for ThinkNOLA.com is invisible to search engines.
Is is best to rework ThinkNOLA to accommodate the usage patterns of New Orleanians. They need URLs that won’t break in email. I don’t like using tinyurl.com with it’s mystery meat URLs. That can’t do much for my Google ranking.
People will copy and paste URLs into other forums, and if they don’t break, then incoming links to ThinkNOLA.com will increase.
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