Dennis, I decided to use an IIS redirect. I'm curious to know what penalty a redirect would be in say Google's eyes. After all, domain.com to www.domain.com is a redirect... and it would be absurd to penalize a site for a simple redirect like that.
Che -----Original Message----- From: UXB Internet [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:09 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF & Domain Redirects >> I'd like to have domain.com automatically redirect to www.domain.com. Assuming you own both domains then this should be done in the DNS not the web server or CF. The A record of both domains should point to the same IP number which is one website. >> Should I be doing this type of redirect in IIS 6 instead of CF? If you don't care what is displayed in the browser address field, domain1.com or domain2.com, then you can set the website to have multiple identities in the IP address field "advanced Tab" so the website responds to either domain. If you actually want someone who types domain1.com into their browser address field to then have their browser change to domain2.com then you will need to do a redirect and the best way is to set it up in IIS not in CF because then the web server will perform the redirect before a page is processed. >> Are the any search engine related "penalties" to doing any of these redirects? YES. Search engines do not like redirects and as someone else said they are "bait and switch" behavior. Each search engine will handle 301 or 302 redirects differently with different penalties based on that particular search engine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334277 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
