>> Dennis, I decided to use an IIS redirect. I'm curious to know what penalty a >> redirect would be in say Google's eyes.
As I indicated each spider handles 30X redirects differently. Justin pointed you to Google's rules which bears repeating: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.ht ml The rule of thumb I use is "if the spider has to do anything extra" to get the data then try not to do it. Or the corollary is "the spider should only ever get a 200 OK response when visiting". We have a number of clients that have multiple domain names pointing to the same website and the only times we issue a redirect is if the client insists that the browser address bar show the "new" domain name or if there is a technical issue such as an SSL certificate or domain cookies used in a shopping cart. Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Website Design & Hosting Company P.O. Box 6028 Wolcott, CT 06716 203-879-2844 http://www.uxbinternet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:334297 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
