Comments on: SEO Tip – Canonicalization

By: Alexis Jameson

Alexis Jameson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:03:41 +0000

Keep up the good work with your post – very informative!

By: Jack Leblond

Jack Leblond — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:35:05 +0000

Looks like you guys all answered all your own questions while I was vacationing in the great state of Maine. Nice work.

Hopefully this didn’t knock you all to far off the geek-scale.

By: Jake Brumble

Jake Brumble — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:42:51 +0000

Ah yes, another spider instruction, I see the point.

I don’t care for the www prefix. it seems a bit archaic, these days it seems most useful for your site address on a business cards, sans http // www mysite.net better cues the reader than mysite.net.

I will stick with the prefixless mysite.com form even though, as I understand cookies for the domain will also apply to any subdomains.

By: Claudia Gonella

Claudia Gonella — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:37:48 +0000

The other common duplicate url is for the home page where a index.php or index.htm file is used. (ie home page found on both domain.com and domain.com/index.htm)

By: Doug Francis

Doug Francis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:41:27 +0000

I’ve been in there getting that done… thanks. All my domains were forwarding to the other host, now they are forwarding to dougfrancis.com on the godaddy nameserver.

By: Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:35:55 +0000

One cool thing with Jack’s series here is that it goes to show that it all starts with the basics.

You will want to redirect dougfrancishomes.com as well using a 301. There are several links pointing to that domain that are being wasted becuase of the 302.

By: Doug Francis

Doug Francis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:07:04 +0000

Bob – thanks for the heads up since it made me think about my GoDaddy account (where I host my site).

I have had dougfrancis.com since 1999 but when I started the current site it was under another domain name hosted elsewhere which was a super slow host.

We switched everything to GoDaddy in May or June for speed and simplicity but I had redirected the domains back to the old site/host. Ooops, I had forgotten to tell GoDaddy that dougfrancis.com is hosted (now) with them. When I checked this morning the GD Nameservers still thought it was hosted with another provider. So I selected “hosting account” at GD.

I really appreciate your suggestions… and will keep you posted.

Hey, I thought “geekiness” is cool?