[clue-tech] Welcome to the new CLUE web site

[Brandon Allhands]

It has been best practice, for as long as I can remember, to always do a 301 to the way you prefer (either www or non www). 

I know a lot has changed in SEO over the last few years, but it's something I still do. It takes minimal configuration, keeps everything straight and presents the URLs cleanly. Make sure it's the first rule in a virtual host config, to minimize processing and get the client on the proper path ASAP.

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On Jan 26, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Mike Burton wrote:

> You can create a profile for the CLUE site on Google's Webmaster Tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools) and tell Google to use www.cluedenver.org, or cluedenver.org.
> 
> --
> Michael Burton
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Crawford Rainwater <crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com> wrote:
> ----- "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote: -----
> >
> > Brian Gibson wrote:
> > > Nice
> > >
> > > btw you can setup an .htaccess file (since the server is
> > > Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS))
> > > to redirect to either cluedenver.org or www.cluedenver.org. Some
> > > search engines
> > > will treat the two as different domains.
> > >
> > > Here's an example:
> > >
> > > //Rewrite to www
> > > Options +FollowSymLinks
> > > RewriteEngine on
> > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cluedenver.org[nc]
> > > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cluedenver.org/$1 [r=301,nc]
> >
> > I think it's easier than fooling with rewrite rules. You just make
> > sure all the domains go to the
> > same set of pages. I guess people might prefer to be redirected from
> > cluedenver.org to
> > www.cluedenver.org but I'm not sure why anyone would care.
> >
> 
> Actually "ServerAlias" with "ServerName" is what is being used in the Apache configuration with a "robots.txt" (via a Drupal module) in place for each one of the CLUE web sites (save the "old" version that is now on www2).  So in theory, going to either "cluedenver.org" or "www.cluedenver.org" is basically the same.  The log file assigned is the same for both on the server end as well.
> 
> Though I admit, I wonder how the Google Analytics picks things on its end.  Now how the web crawlers/robots see things, got me.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> --- Crawford
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