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26

Feb

2009

Sphinn’s wacky redirects

By Chewie. Posted in General | View Comments

I was just talking with Jane Copland about the beloved Sphinn blog and how it is always up to date :o ) So i decided to type in http://sphinn.com/blog and found it rather amusing when it 301 redirected to http://blog.sphinn.com/blog and then returned me a 404 error.

I then decided to type http://www.sphinn.com/blog and got redirected to http://sphinn.com/php-fastcgi.fcgi/blog/index.php

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It made me smile that Sphinn, an SEO blog, haven’t got there redirects sorted correctly, although I do sympathise with them since they are using the rather useless Pligg platform.

Evil Green Donkey was unavailble for comment, when i leaned over the desk to ask him he put his fingers in his ears and started singing YMCA :o )

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Chewie is from a mysterious part of the United Kingdom called Up Norf. He has been working in web development and SEO for over ten years, beginning as a developer and moving to SEO in search of the perfect rank. As well as SEO he likes football, beer, girls and gravy - often at the same time.
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  • Kerry: Well Sphinn is built off pligg, which is notorious for its poor coding. I think they would probably be better just using Google custom search, although a lot of the upcoming stories wouldn't get indexed.
  • And Sphinn has the world's worst internal search. In fact the only other one I have found that is as bad for actually finding things is searchengineland.com. Hmm, perhaps there is a link!
  • It probably makes leaving comments encouraging horizontal-dance products more difficult. You need to think like a jedi, master Luke ;). Notice how I cleverly avoided tripping your filters with the word sex? Aw fuck.
  • Miss Butler: :)

    Yeah i probably need to change the blurb since i wrote it pretty quickly. Although, to these southern softies anything north is ummm, North.
  • Evil Green Donkey - brilliant!
    Are you sure they're not just filtering your IP address? ;)
    BTW I vehemently disagree with your 'About the Author' blurb. North of England? We need to educate the masses - it's the Midlands!
  • SEO Wizard
    Sphinn also need to think about target="_blank"

    It is so annoying that there links open in the same window by default, i often browse the sphinn website and then go off to the orignal post, exploring the site i've be directed too only,
    Then have to press back a million an one times to get back to sphinn.

    They should also try considering a bit of usability aswell!
  • Andy
    ƃuıop ǝq oʇ sƃuıɥʇ ɹǝʇʇǝq sɐɥ ǝɥ ǝɹns ɯ,ı
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