Replacement Rule Performance

Hi John,

The new PB module is looking really good - I am just setting up all my 301 redirects and then I am going to try the Static File Handler...

So, my question is - I have 30 domains that all point at PokerDIY (missspellings, .co.uks etc.). Google already has indexed loads of them which is bad.

1) Will 30 IF Rules affect performance?

2) When the RegEx expression is found, I assume it stops searching? For example, when I am doing a rule for a 301 redirect, I want it to do it everytime, so I search for some HTML that I know will be on ther page. Should I use HTML that is as high as possible so that it finds it and exits (e.g. the TITLE tag instead of the end HEAD tag) or does this make no difference?

3) Is there any reason why you can't just make a Rule execute on every request instead of doing the fake search like above? Ie. you just check a checkbox saying "Exectute on every Request" instead of searching for "" which you know will always exist? Just curious.

I'm going to have lots more questions I'm sure ;)

Thanks

Rodney

Smart-Thinker.com

PokerDIY.com

Since all of your domains go to the same domain you can do it in one rule like this:

[PB: IF( Match("[PB:Request.Url]","http://www\.pokerdiy\.com[/]?$") =="False"  ) {
[PB: Response.Status("301 Moved Permanently") ]
[PB: Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.pokerdiy.com/") ]
[PB: Response.End() ]
}else{

}]

This makes every request for just a domain name that does not match http://www.pokerdiy.com or http://www.pokerdiy.com/ redirect plus you want to add that last slash to make it consistent.

If you also want to redirect pages from the other urls to their corresponding pages (urls with Querystrings) then let me know, but I think it may be better if you push everything to the home page or it will look like you are trying to spam the search engines.

Sorry, more questions John ;)  Ok, I have all my 301 redirects set up –

1.      With regards to your question a few posts up about preserving the URL or pushing to the homepage - Google has indexed some of the other domains already, so I think it may be better if I don’t just redirect to the main site (ie. www.pokerdiy.com/) – I just want to change the domain name and keep the rest of the URL

Eg.

http://www.home-poker-tour.com/Leagues/PokerLeagues/tabid/435/Default.aspx

should actually be

http://www.pokerdiy.com/Leagues/PokerLeagues/tabid/435/Default.aspx

 but it’s indexed in Google as the dud domain (home-poker-tour.com) – so from what I understand about SEO it would be better to point this at the bottom link so that the reference in the index still has the same content, but Google can update their index to reflect PokerDIY.com instead because of the 301 redirect response. What do you think  would be better?

         2)      99% of the time the domain will be the correct PokerDIY.com (and over time this should improve as the 301 Redirect causes old links to be updated). I think it may be more efficient to check if it is “www.pokerdiy.com” first and do nothing, otherwise check the others. You mentioned that nested IFS are not possible, so would the below be a good idea? (it would not do the second check if the URL was www.pokerdiy.com). It seems to work but is it more efficient do you reckon?

[PB: IF(Match("[PB:Request.Url]","www.pokerdiy.com"))
{[PB: Response.End()]}]

[PB: IF(Match("[PB:Request.Url]","wannaplaypoker.net|top-poker-deals.com")) {
[PB: Response.Status("301 Moved Permanently") ]
[PB: Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.pokerdiy.com/") ]
[PB: Response.End() ]
}else{
}]

Actually John, I got it working with redirecting all pages to the home page ("http://www.pokerdiy.com/") but when I add the $1 to add the rest of the URL for other domains it does not work:

It outputs:

http://www.pokerdiy.com/$1 (which throws a 404 error of course). This was when I used the URL "http://www.rodneyjoyce.com/Resources/PokerGallery/tabid/558/PhotoId/2862/Default.aspx" and the rule as you specified above. I can't find anything about the $1 replacement var in the documentation...

How do I get it to put the URL instead of the $1? (I've changed the rule on PokerDIY back to going to the homepage in the meantime)

Ok, I see why this isn't working as expected now.  The group replacement requires that a match was found on the Match and we are looking for a match that is not found.

I have another method simular to Match called Capture that will take care of this situation:

[PB: IF(  Capture("[PB:Request.Url]","http://([^/]+)/?(.*)" )  != "www.pokerdiy.com"  ) {

     [PB: Response.Status("301 Moved Permanently") ]
     [PB:Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.pokerydiy.com/$2")]
     [PB: Response.End() ]

} else{

/title>

}]

Darn, I tested it too. It worked for me, but I was just sending it to a different domain.

I want this to work because it will probably be a pretty common request, so I'll keep trying until I get it right.