The Sound of 100,000 Links Dying
Posted by Josh Hallett on April 17, 2008 at 10:27 AM
You remember in Star Wars - A New Hope when Alderon was blown up and Ben Kenobi felt thousands of voices crying out, then silenced? The same thing happened with Polk Online, the News Chief's former web site. If you visit PolkOnline.com it now redirects to NewsChief.com. All the old stories and links are dead. How many links? According to Google 116,000 links. That's a great way to kill your PageRank, search traffic, ad revenue, long-term relevance.
Comments
Smooth! Then again, I'm pretty sure the same thing (on a much smaller scale) happened to me with my migration last month.
Posted by: matthew wengerd | April 17, 2008 11:41 AM
There's some kind of glitch. The redirect form polkonline.com to newschief. com was working correctly last week. It seems to have reverted to a previous incarnation. It should be resolved in the next week or two.
Posted by: Barry Friedman | April 17, 2008 04:27 PM
Utterly painful...
Posted by: Danny | April 18, 2008 12:16 AM