On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:28, Dan Wood wrote: > Some advice on that: Just be sure not to duplicate the content between the > page on your company and the app page. In other words, don't have your app's > home page showing up at http://www.foobarapp.com/ *and* > http://mycompany.com/foobar/ .... That's duplicate content, which is not > good for Google. Instead, do a 301 redirect (not 302 or something clever > with meta tags or javascript) so that any links that you get to the app > domain name feed through Google Juice to your main page for that app.
Not arguing with the advice overall, but I'd do it the other way around (so http://mycompany.com/foobar forwards to http://www.foobarapp.com/). I set up things for my app the way Dan suggests at first and found that, even if I gave someone the short memorable domain link, when they were writing about the app (be it an email to a friend, a tweet, or even a newspaper or magazine article) they would always copy and paste the 'real' address from the browser window and end up quoting the longer, harder to remember, harder to type address. Jamie.
