Re^4: www.perlmonks.org vs. perlmonks.org

[szabgab]

For SEO purposes I think it would be better to have a single live site and the rest should redirect to the same address.

As it is now, some people will link to http://www.perlmonks.org/ others to http://perlmonks.org/ and the other addresses. That will divide the inbound links and reduce the page rank of each page. That's true for all the nodes.

-- Weekend SEO expert

[ambrus]

Actually the site owners can tell Google that the domains are equivalent, and which one should the search engine use. They can also tell the canonical address of each page separately, which could also be useful to make search engines know that /?node=1st+monasterians and /?node=149675 are the same as /?node_id=149675.

[Anonymous Monk]

As it is now, some people will link to http://www.perlmonks.org/ others to http://perlmonks.org/ and the other addresses.

And they will promptly be told to use [id://] or [href://] for linking

[JavaFan]

Some people have discovered that there are webpages outside of Perlmonks, and (gasp!), those pages actually allow links to Perlmonks. Guess what, [id://] and [href://] don't work there!