On 28/04/15 19:14, Andreas Goss wrote:
Not going to happen. We don't add random www. prefixes to any of our
other sites, other than the main site. Arguably we should drop it there.
Why is that random? Try any other larger website and you will find that
they all have redirects for all subdomains and all go to the domain with
or without www.
I don't think of these as subdomains. I think of them as sites within
the domain.
So you think it's okay that http://www.hot.openstreetmap.org/ or
http://www.wiki.openstreetmap.org/ are just dead links?
Yes, I think that's fine.
I mean I never done it myself, but isn't it like just 1-3 short lines in
the .htaccess file?
Sure. Multiplied by several dozen variants of our root domain.
And how many used xxx.opesntreetmap.org pages do we actually have? blog,
forum and help are the only ones I can think of
Dozens.
I believe hotosm.org is the canonical domain anyway, we just provide
hot.openstreetmap.org as an alias for convenience.
I can't find any canonical links and they should be in the source code,
right?
No idea. I have nothing to do with HOT other than pointing the
hot.osm.org name at their IP address as requested. Note that we only
point that one name, we don't delegate a subdomain.
And while it might be convenient, it's really bad for search engines. I
mean wouldn't it be kinda nice if people when looking for "earthquake
map nepal" or whatever might get a HOT page listed as a top result?
How on earth does this help with that? I can understand that having all
the working names redirect to one canonical name might help, but I don't
see why it should matter which name is chosen as the canonical one.
Tom
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