Garbage Burrito

I recently noticed that garbageburrito.com has a Page Rank of 3.  This is totally sweet and it shows in the number of search queries I've been getting.  However I also noticed that the page rank didn't show up in the google toolbar, only when I manually check the domain name.  Then I realized that when you go to garbageburrito.com, it actually redirects you to garbageburrito.com/blog.  Doodlekit has a feature that let's you select your entry page, and it uses a redirect to route you to the right place.  

I looked into skipping the redirect, and just rendering the proper action for the root domain, but it turned out it would be quite a bit of work.  I might still pursue this, however I wanted a quick solution for now.

I did a little reading and found out that Google honors redirects, but only 301(permanent) redirects.  By default Rails uses 302 redirects, as it should.  So I simply added the following line of code before the redirect and shazam.

    headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
   
Now garbageburrito.com/blog has a PR of 3, and my content really matters.  At least to google anyway.

I've now got four sites that have PR 3 to 5.  Finally, I can execute my master plan, MUAHAHAHAAH!