[FM Discuss] [Admin] Omnibook and Flossmanuals SEO

[Mick Chesterman]

On 22/03/2018 11:50, helen varley jamieson wrote:
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>  just want to say that we should not lightly let go of the domain 
> name. as elisa says, it would be quite a big loss. i haven't followed 
> any discussion around it, but since it costs very little to hold onto 
> a domain name, why not keep it & point it to the new url?
>
> h : )
>
>
> On 22.03.2018 11:43, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Loosing the url is loosing a hudge SEO, isn't ?
>>
Hi Helen and Elisa,

It's a good discussion :) so just widening out to the discuss list oo.

I agree on the SEO front.
If we can work out a solution to keep URLs intact that would be great.

But actually we did swap URLs a bit recently from 
http://en.flossmanuals.net to http://write.flossmanuals.net with a 
redirect and google didn't seem too upset

And this is only a factor for new and active books. Ones that are 
archived or not being updated - which is most - won't be affected. 
Although it might be nice to migrate the top 20 books too.

Preserving the URLs completely would be possible in some ways - and 
maybe there are others I haven't thought of
1) setting up or asking BookType to set up a separate instance of omnibook
2) exporting a html zip of each book and pulling that into our own space 
and running some script-fu to theme it appropriately
3) pointing something like read.flossmanuals.net at the new server and 
seeing if BookType can serve that up as a site alias


3) Is definately worth asking about - I'll do that - it would be a quick 
great solution.

  2)  I don't think we have volunteer capacity to make this happen at 
the moment but is definately worth investigating if anyone has a bit of 
time to play about with that kind of export

1) I don't think we have the capicity to set up an instance and I think 
it is too big an ask for a totally separate instance from BookType too.


Thanks
Mick