Archive for January 23rd, 2007
New Method for Redirecting to www
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
During my server setup I discovered an interesting new way to solve the age-old http://domain.com http://<em>www.</em>domain.com problem, one that I think is less resource intensive and more logical.
The problem, for those unfamiliar, is that Google sees those two sites as separate, assigns two PageRanks, and can even duplicate content. That’s not good! To try to combat this, in their webmaster tools page, you can select which address you prefer, but that’s been unreliable for me. Zenphoto.org still has split PageRanks even though I told Google to always use the www subdomain. For that reason (and others, like consistency of the URL users see) I think it’s best taken care of server-side.
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