if domain.com & www.domain.com page=duplicate?!

position tech suggests to disable www.domain.com or domain.com ...

[enotalone]

hi everyone. the last email i have received from position tech contains an advice for me that according to them if used can help my site in yahoo.

<snip>Sorry, we can't have any email quotes.</snip>

anyone sees a logic here? both www.domain.com and domain.com server the same file and there is nothing unusual in it as far as i see. i hope position tech is not right and that yahoo is smart enough to distinguish domain.com from www.domain.com.

[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 2:27 am (utc) on April 19, 2004]
[edit reason] TOS #9 [/edit]

[pixel_juice]

>>i am not sure if it is because of redirecting everything from domain.com to www.domain.com with mod_rewrite or because i applied for sitematch

Or neither ;)

[yvt360]

I just spoke to my dedicated server host regarding this topic for redirecting domain.com to www.domain.com on a windows server. They recommended creating a site for both and redirecting domain.com to www.domain.com
I just wanted to get the expert opinion before I do this.

[pixel_juice]

It doesn't really matter how they accomplish it, as long as domain.com gives a 301 response header and redirects to www.domain.com.

Your guys sound about right about IIS - as far as I remember you make two sites in the IIS manager, one normal one for www.domain.com and another for domain.com + any other relevant domains which is just set to permanently redirect to the first.

[yvt360]

I have created the domain.com to forward to www.domain.com using the above procedure. Now, when I type in domain.com/anything to forwards to www.domain.com
Is it safe for that to happen?
It raises a flag to me when I type in domain.com/subject and it goes to www.domain.com not the actual page. I just want to make sure:)

[pixel_juice]

>>when I type in domain.com/anything to forwards to www.domain.com

If you mean secondarydomain.com/somepage.html goes to the homepage of your main site then it isn't set up correctly.

secondarydomain.com/somepage.html should forward to primarydomain.com/somepage.html. This is what happens with IIS set as described above - I just went and checked a site ;)

[enotalone]

i think 301 redirect helped as my site is back on yahoo.