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On 2013-09-11 05:44, Marc Gemis wrote:
I believe that there was a blog post on Coding Error that
stackoverflow got most traffic via google search. Google is the
dominant search engine, whether we like it or not. Anyhow, Search
Engine Optimization (SEO) is something you cannot neglect as a
business. But the domain name is not that relevant imho.
I'm pretty much on top of that subject professionally, try to follow me
on this: when you have the same pages on different domains, your
domains will compete with eachother as they are exactly the same, if you
don't redirect correctly. Hence why I mention to do this the right way
as I see it too many times that people buy every domain they can think
of. Next to that google will crawl every domain seperately as it has
no idea it's the same, so your traffic will grow exponentially. On a
static site, that is usually not an issue, but once you go
drupal/wordpress/joomla/etc... your server will get hits. I've had
this happen to huge customers (agenda.nieuwsblad.be for example). The
servers that do this where dying just because crawlers had a free pass,
everyone came by, Russian, Chinese , Google , Bing, fake google bots,
bots not respecting your robots.txt, etc etc ... this accounted for more
than 60% of the traffic, those numbers went into the terrabytes
monthly. So by just limiting and holding google's hand instead of
buying new servers as the customer planned, this platform is now doing
almost nothing and analytics do not suffer.
Here is a site explaining this in more detail:
http://www.k2seo.com/competing-with-yourself/
Search for "rent a room in new york" and the top hit is airbnb.com
<http://airbnb.com> . No "room", "rent" nor "NY" in the name. Content,
metatag, links from other sites, url of pages etc. all play a role.
Google only give hints on what their algorithm uses, all the rest are
guesses.
I fail to see the point of the statement in this context. My point was
sending a warning to pay attention to multiple sites serving the exact
same content (alias domains).
I would also stick the to naming convention used in the other
countries so openstreetmap.be <http://openstreetmap.be>
(there are e.g. openstreetmap.nl <http://openstreetmap.nl>,
openstreetmap.fr <http://openstreetmap.fr>, openstreetmap.de
<http://openstreetmap.de> )
Also what technology are they using for their sites ? Their
communities (especially the German one) are larger and they might
develop reusable components, that can be used on other sites. And what
is the main openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org> using (read
it somewhere but forgot it)
openstreetmaps.org uses Ruby on Rails, the code is available here :
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website
Glenn
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