[thelist] Potential Subdomain problem

[Jeff Hinds]

I would not count on the search engine crawlers for this I would definitely
use a robots.txt file http://www.robotstxt.org/  to keep them out.

I believe you should be able to a server side 301 redirect even if the pages
are not there.
http://www.somacon.com/p145.php



On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Graham Hays <
graham.hays at visualcomputing.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Jeff, that's what I thought. We're probably going to take a
> different
> approach.
>
> I couldn't use the 301 method as there is no duplicate page as such - the
> subdomain simply accessed the same folder and web files .. or are the
> crawlers 'clever' enough to work out that there was only 1 set of site
> files
> with 2 access methods?
> (xxx.com/zzz and zzz.xxx.com)
>
> Graham
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
> > bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Hinds
> > Sent: 18 October 2011 13:44
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] Potential Subdomain problem
> >
> > This would be duplicate content. Set a 301 server side redirect to
> forward
> the
> > page you're not using to the page you want to use.
> > Setup a robots.txt file to keep search crawlers from indexing the pages
> and
> > causing duplicate content.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff
> > http://www.netagency.com
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Graham Hays <
> > graham.hays at visualcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I have no experience (yet!) with using subdomains so need some advice.
> > >
> > > We are considering using subdomains for specific products (typically
> > > 4-5 pages per product so they could stand as sites in their own right)
> > > BUT we want to keep the original products in the main site so viewers
> > > can access either by subdomain or through the main site. So both
> > > 'mainsite.com/product-x' and 'product-x.mainsite.com' both actually
> > > access the files in 'mainsite.com/product-x'.
> > >
> > > what I'm wondering is - is there a downside to doing this? Will this
> > > get the SEO thumbs down? (would this be treated as duplicate content)
> > >
> > > Graham
> > >
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