From: mmalmi@cc.hut.fi
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:22:57 +0200
To: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: SEO friendly site transition

That's ok.

I'll be afk 23.-25.11.

> We need to do a continuity transition with bitcoin.org so the search
> engines don't think this is a new site and reset the site start date
> and PR data.  Google allows a certain number of properties like IP
> address or content of the site to change without deleting your site
> history.  To play it safe, when the IP address changes, the content
> better stay the same and vice versa.  Even though not much rank has
> accumulated yet, the original start date becomes extremely important if
> the site gets popular later.
>
> Steps:
> 1) copy the current bitcoin.org index.html to the new server exactly as-is.
> 2) switch the bitcoin.org DNS entry.
> 3) keep working on the drupal site behind the scenes.
> 4) after google has had time to update its records, we can switch over
> to the drupal site.
>
> The timing works out well because we can switch to the new forum now
> and release the drupal site later when we're ready.
>
> I'll see if I can figure out how to temporarily move drupal aside to
> drupal.php or /drupal/ or something where we can still easily get in
> and work on it.