<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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). <div><br></div><div>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.<div><br></div><div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jan 26, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Mike Burton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">You can create a profile for the CLUE site on Google's Webmaster Tools (<a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools">https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools</a>) and tell Google to use <a href="http://www.cluedenver.org/">www.cluedenver.org</a>, or <a href="http://cluedenver.org/">cluedenver.org</a>.<div>
<br></div><div>--</div><div>Michael Burton</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Crawford Rainwater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crawford.rainwater@linux-etc.com">crawford.rainwater@linux-etc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">----- "David L. Anselmi" <<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>> wrote: -----<br>
><br>
> Brian Gibson wrote:<br>
> > Nice<br>
> ><br>
> > btw you can setup an .htaccess file (since the server is<br>
> > Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS))<br>
> > to redirect to either <a href="http://cluedenver.org/" target="_blank">cluedenver.org</a> or <a href="http://www.cluedenver.org/" target="_blank">www.cluedenver.org</a>. Some<br>
> > search engines<br>
> > will treat the two as different domains.<br>
> ><br>
> > Here's an example:<br>
> ><br>
> > //Rewrite to www<br>
> > Options +FollowSymLinks<br>
> > RewriteEngine on<br>
> > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^<a href="http://cluedenver.org/" target="_blank">cluedenver.org</a>[nc]<br>
> > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.cluedenver.org/$1" target="_blank">http://www.cluedenver.org/$1</a> [r=301,nc]<br>
><br>
> I think it's easier than fooling with rewrite rules. You just make<br>
> sure all the domains go to the<br>
> same set of pages. I guess people might prefer to be redirected from<br>
> <a href="http://cluedenver.org/" target="_blank">cluedenver.org</a> to<br>
> <a href="http://www.cluedenver.org/" target="_blank">www.cluedenver.org</a> but I'm not sure why anyone would care.<br>
><br>
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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 "<a href="http://cluedenver.org/" target="_blank">cluedenver.org</a>" or "<a href="http://www.cluedenver.org/" target="_blank">www.cluedenver.org</a>" is basically the same. The log file assigned is the same for both on the server end as well.<br>
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Though I admit, I wonder how the Google Analytics picks things on its end. Now how the web crawlers/robots see things, got me.<br>
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HTH.<br>
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--- Crawford<br>
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