{"id":1384,"date":"2011-04-20T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2011-04-20T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:56:24","slug":"should-i-combat-link-rot-with-redirects-can-it-be-done-unintrusively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2011\/04\/20\/should-i-combat-link-rot-with-redirects-can-it-be-done-unintrusively\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I combat link rot with redirects? Can it be done unintrusively?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to do my bit of keeping the web fluent by minimizing the amount of link rot affecting my own site. This means keeping track of local 404&#8217;s and fixing them, as well as manually updating broken external URL references I come across.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen redirects suggested as one solution to combat link rot. When all links point to local redirect addresses (such as example.com\/?r=123456), the actual target URL can be kept in a database and updated throughout the site in one place in the face of link rot.<\/p>\n<p>However, on the user side I generally dislike redirect systems myself, as they make picking up the actual target URL&#8217;s somewhat cumbersome (have a look at the title links on a Google search results page for example).<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe I&#8217;ve used sites that do employ redirects but do it transparently enough for me not to even notice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is a transparent (or nearly-so) redirect system at all possible? Are such systems available already, or should I roll my own?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;d be interested to hear if there are other major cons in utilizing redirects. So far, the user annoyance I mentioned above has been enough to keep me from planning ahead with this technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a transparent (or nearly-so) redirect system at all possible? Are such systems available already, or should I roll my own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3922],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aiheeton","sijainti-stack-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}