[Bug 5270] New: Make mercurial.selenic.com redirect to mercurial-scm.org
mercurial-bugs at selenic.com
mercurial-bugs at selenic.com
Mon Jun 20 21:16:11 UTC 2016
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5270
Bug ID: 5270
Summary: Make mercurial.selenic.com redirect to
mercurial-scm.org
Product: Mercurial
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC
OS: Mac OS
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: feature
Priority: wish
Component: website
Assignee: bugzilla at selenic.com
Reporter: marcin at python-blog.com
CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com
Created attachment 1924
--> https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/attachment.cgi?id=1924&action=edit
mercurial.selenic.com backlinks
It's great that mercurial got now dedicated url under mercurial-scm.org however
i think the deactivation of mercurial.selenic.com is prematurely.
1) for me top google hit for query "mercurial scm" still points to selenic
website, this confused me and i actually thought the site is down
2) there are TONS according to our investigation more than 50,000 of backlinks
all over the internet to pages under selenic subdomain. As someone pointed
already the missing redirect already caused some answers to stack overflow to
be removed because of broken links
3) I quote our Marketing guys: `it canât be they killed mercurial.selenic.com
without proper redirect. The site has >50,000 backlinks. People kill for less`
Please consider putting a 301 redirect from mercurial.selenic.com/* to
mercurial-scm.org
To prove that i'm attaching some data when we did an analysis of
mercurial.selenic.com
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