check if certain sites can be scraped again by google

[zaziemo]

context: if people change their name, the slug /firstname-name changes as well.

The link with the previous name does not work anymore and the user gets an error page. Please check: Is it possible to tell google to crawl a certain site again (eg. if name changes)?

[sabrina-ulbrich]

Idea: Women can enter a name for the url themselves. If the name changes (for example, on marriage), they can change the field themselves, or we suggest that two urls refer to the same profile.

[netagonen]

Are users aware of this problem? Can we warn them not to change their names? OR Is it a feature that is not yet implemented? How would we want to implement it? Would it be a mandatory field? What happens with all the users who changed their names so far?

[zaziemo]

@netagonen this is something that is already implemented. We use the gem friendly-id to make routing by name instead of id possible (default Rails Route .../profiles/1 vs. .../profiles/maren-heltsche`). This comes with the downside that if the name changes the slug (last part of the route) also changes.

I think we shouldn't prevent our users to change their names. Nobody would do that unless it is really necessary. I also would prefer not to let people themselves decide how their slug might be named as @sabrina-ulbrich suggested.

As I described above it would be great if we could "tell" google somehow to crawl the site again (because to my knowledge this is the only context the problem really is a problem) or alternatively we could see if we have a redirection from the old URL to the new one as @sabrina-ulbrich also suggested.