RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-20 Thread Robert Harrison
> Google viewed www.excaliburfilms.com and www.ExcaliburFilms.com as two > separate sites. Now way dude. We do SEO here and we're damn good at it too. Domains names are NOT case sensitive. If you're seeing in your tools you've got something set up wrong. Case is NOT AN ISSUE. Things lik

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-20 Thread Jacob
Subject: Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)??? > Make sure it is lowercase also. > > www.Mydomain.com > www.mydomain.com > www.MyDomain.com > > are three different sites! Do you have a reference or source for that? Domain names are not case sensitive, and I've never seen t

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-20 Thread Jacob
Not according to Google. Google will see them at three separate sites. -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:46 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)??? Sorry but that is completely wrong. Domain names

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-20 Thread Justin Scott
> Make sure it is lowercase also. > > www.Mydomain.com > www.mydomain.com > www.MyDomain.com > > are three different sites! Do you have a reference or source for that? Domain names are not case sensitive, and I've never seen them treated as such by any search engine. -Justin ~

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-20 Thread Russ Michaels
Sorry but that is completely wrong. Domain names are not case sensitive nor are they processed by case by the web server. -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: 20 January 2011 20:40 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)??? Make sure it

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-20 Thread Jacob
Make sure it is lowercase also. www.Mydomain.com www.mydomain.com www.MyDomain.com are three different sites! -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:53 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-19 Thread Russ Michaels
having multiple domains pointing to the same site has some issues. It is not seo friendly and supposedly effects rankings. It will skew your webstats as they usually only show data for the primary domain, not alias, so u will see traffic for www.mydomain.com not mydomain.com If you have any code

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-19 Thread Kris Jones
Another thing you might want to look at -- not a redirect resolution at all -- but is setting up a canonical tag. This is so that if you have the site serving from both www.whatever.com and whatever.com, and you don't really care about which one the user uses, Google will index them as if they hav

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Dave Watts
> Of which the best is probably at the DNS (Domain Name Server) level. > Set one domain to be an alias of the other so that everybody everywhere > (including search engines) know that both names are to the same content. I don't think that would make a difference here. The client would still use t

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Justin Scott
> Of which the best is probably at the DNS (Domain Name Server) level. > Set one domain to be an alias of the other so that everybody everywhere > (including search engines) know that both names are to the same content. Aliasing a name in DNS will have no impact on what name the visitor is direct

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Ian Skinner
On 1/18/2011 1:41 PM, Aaron M Renfroe wrote: > Would i place that in my application.cfm or at the top of my pages? > Technically the same thing. The purpose of Application.cfm|cfc is that is is code that is run before (at the top of) all normal pages.

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Harrison
> Would i place that in my application.cfm or at the top of my pages? Application would probably do it. Top of pages (as in include) is another options. I use this as an include because of a few other things I've got going that may conflict on some pages. Robert B. Harrison Director of Inter

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Harrison
>> IIS 7 has a "preferred domain" URL filter which makes this really, >> really easy and applicable to the entire site with a few clicks. IIS 7 is totally viable, but you may not always have access to IIS, depending on the hosting environment. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Servic

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Aaron M Renfroe
Would i place that in my application.cfm or at the top of my pages? On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Robert Harrison wrote: > > > I believe Google's webmaster tools has the option to treat www and > non-www traffic as the same? > > Actually Google dislikes you using both and it will hurt SEO ra

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Matt Robertson
Here's what I do to force traffic onto the same domain so Google is happy: ...taken from where I set my application vars ... /... ...this is inside of /Application.cfm https://";> ht

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Ian Skinner
On 1/18/2011 1:31 PM, Justin Scott wrote: > There are also non-CF ways of doing this such as URLRewrite engines. > IIS 7 has a "preferred domain" URL filter which makes this really, > really easy and applicable to the entire site with a few clicks. > > > -Justin Scott Of which the best is probab

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Mandel
Ah apche rewrite rule will get that www. in place super quick But for the google side - look at canonical urls: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html Mark On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Aaron Renfroe wrote: > > Hello Everyone! > > I've been optimizin

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Harrison
> I believe Google's webmaster tools has the option to treat www and non-www > traffic as the same? Actually Google dislikes you using both and it will hurt SEO rankings. We use the www version only, but you could easily alter this routine to go the other way. This is tested... http://ww

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Justin Scott
> My issue is i only have the one site (griffinrad.com), there is no old or new > site > that i'm redirecting. I'm just trying to get the people that put www before > the url. Just check the current URL they're coming in on: This is untested so may need slight ad

Re: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Aaron M Renfroe
w and non-www > traffic as the same? > > ~Che > > -Original Message- > From: Aaron Renfroe [mailto:mossma...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:07 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: CF Permanent Redirect (301)??? > > > Hello Everyone! > > I&#x

RE: CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Che Vilnonis
I believe Google's webmaster tools has the option to treat www and non-www traffic as the same? ~Che -Original Message- From: Aaron Renfroe [mailto:mossma...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:07 PM To: cf-talk Subject: CF Permanent Redirect (301)??? Hello Everyone!

CF Permanent Redirect (301)???

2011-01-18 Thread Aaron Renfroe
Hello Everyone! I've been optimizing my site and checking it in google's webmaster tools, fixing it all to be a SEO sensation (LOL). I keep getting the advice to use a permenant redirect from my www.griffinrad.com to griffinrad.com. Here is what its saying to do: <.cfheader statuscode="301"