Comments on: Redirect Root Domain to WWW Subdomain http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/07/13/redirect-root-domain-to-www-subdomain/ A blog about Frameworks (CakePHP), MVC, Snippets, Tips and more Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:39:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/07/13/redirect-root-domain-to-www-subdomain/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Mark Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:59:50 +0000 http://www.dereuromark.de/?p=263#comment-407 canonical is not the right answer to this! what about pages that are not (x)html? there are other formats as well (search engines also index images, pdfs, ...). what about search engines that don't care about this tag? what about cookies, and other stuff depending on the domain name? it just doesn't make any sense AT ALL to allow "domain.de" and "www.domain.de" to display the same content. as with any other major site, it is advised to forward to "www". canonical is not the right answer to this!
what about pages that are not (x)html? there are other formats as well (search engines also index images, pdfs, …). what about search engines that don't care about this tag? what about cookies, and other stuff depending on the domain name?
it just doesn't make any sense AT ALL to allow "domain.de" and "www.domain.de" to display the same content.
as with any other major site, it is advised to forward to "www".

]]> By: augusto http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/07/13/redirect-root-domain-to-www-subdomain/comment-page-1/#comment-148 augusto Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:24:16 +0000 http://www.dereuromark.de/?p=263#comment-148 Or you can add a link tag with rel="canonical" inside the head of your HTML document. This is a special feature added by google to solve this problem. Check the official documentation at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html Or you can add a link tag with rel="canonical" inside the head of your HTML document.

This is a special feature added by google to solve this problem. Check the official documentation at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

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