IE and <pre> tags in the blog text

A couple of stories ago I mentioned that this blog looks broken when viewed in IE. I thought 'float' style, used in the blog template was a culprit. Turned out that it was due to <pre> tags I freely scattered around in text of some blog entries, featuring patches and code samples. Jist another thing to watch for when using blogger.

Links to the site and front page redirects

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A quick observation, it seems that Google might have certain issues counting links to your site if it redirects from its main page "inland" of the site, i.e. for instance:


http://my.site.com |-(HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY)-> http://my.site.com/news


Meanwhile, other sites, linking to yours are using base URL, i.e. http://my.site.com. Looks like a sure way to get zero page rank on the front page.