meg@lilly.csoft.net wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:11:19PM -0700, Don Calfa wrote:
>/_One reason for having just one domain (domain.com vs. www.domain.com) is
>/_for search engine ranking. Most if not all optimized sites will have a
>/_301 from the root domain to point to the www so that only 1 site is
>/_listed and not 2 sites for the same content. Having 2 or more sites
>/_with the same content penalizes ranking in search engines.
>/_
>/_If you're curious, rip the headers off google.com and yahoo.com for an
>/_example.
>
>OK, now we are flushing out some reasons. Where could I read more
>about your search engine reasoning? Why penalize? What if I had three
>domain names all pointing to the same place? Two are for mispellings
>of the first....are you saying I would be penalized? Where could I read
>more about this?
>
>Not sure what you mean by "rip the headers off..."
>google.com & www.google.com take me to the same place -> http://www.google.com
>
>
Search Engine Optimizing is both an art and a science. Knowledge of web
servers, how to code html, and being aware of the traffic on the web all
come into play. Experience is everything.
From expeience ->
If you want to get ranked and you have 2+ domains that you want to
direct traffic to;
A) 301 each site to 1 site if you want the same content for all sites.
B) Have different content for each site. Providing links within to the
other sites can increase visibility.
Hang out at
www.webmasterworld.com
www.jimworld.com/apps/webmaster.forums
for more info.
As far as reading the headers, there are plenty of perl scripts that can
rip off the header information that a web server serves to see exactly
what is being served. (telnet does it too but I forgot the syntax)
If on Window$, Sam Spade can show you. Yahoo.com looks like:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:54:51 GMT
Location:
http://www.yahoo.com/
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
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The document has moved <A HREF="
http://www.yahoo.com/">here</A>.<P>
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Likewise, this guy has a cool cgi:
http://rexswain.com/httpview.html
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