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---- Domain forwarding instead of 301 redirect to avoid passing penalty


g1smd - 7:52 pm on Jun 18, 2012 (gmt 0)


It does, but then you have a Duplicate Content problem.


Two ways to fix:
- 301 redirect all non-canonical-hostname requests to the correct URL per page, or
- add the
rel="canonical" tag to all pages, each one including the canonical hostname in the referenced URL.

I have always prefered the former, however there are some advantages (especially in analytics tracking) in using the latter.


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