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When DotNetNuke 4.9.2 and 5.0.1 landed, they contained a new option on the Page Settings screen : 'Permanent Redirect'



This option allows you to define a new destination for the page in question.  To use it, you tick the permanent redirect option, and select a destination Url by defining a Url in the 'Link Url' field. 

Once you have saved this option, any request for that page will return a 301 redirect http status code, and provide the new Url as the destination.  If you choose a page as the link, the 301 redirect will go to the current Url for that page.  If you choose a url, the...

I picked up an interesting topic in the last couple of days ; it seems PC Magazine John Dvorak made a post specifically mentioning 'Long Urls'.

"Long URLs are bogus! Tags like "nude" and "naked" are counterfeits! SEO is a big business, and from what I can tell its proponents are modern snake-oil salesmen."

John Dvorak : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340694,00.asp

(just because he doesn't believe in SEO, I've helpfully put a 'rel=nofollow' on that link)

In the article, John goes on to explain how he changed his Wordpress blog from a typical CMS url like this:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=3100

to this:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/10/20/hollywood-unions-want-cut-of-itunes-pie/

And he goes further to say that his traffic fell, and concludes "it does nothing".  And then concludes...

I've tried to join Twitter a few times, but I kept getting a 403 error.  I eventually tried on a different computer using Firefox and it worked fine.  So Twitter seems to be incompatible with IE6, producing 403 forbidden errors. 

Yes, I still use IE6.  It's on an older computer and it's handy to check site compatibility.  There's still a lot of people out there using IE6, despite Windows Updated pleading with people to upgrade.

Anyway, I'm now on twitter here : http://twitter.com/brucerchapman

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