[uwebd] RE: www in subdomain urls

[Anderson, David]

Rob,

Make sure the redirect mechanism issues a 301. That's what Google recommends in cases like yours:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

Best,
David Anderson



David Anderson
Director of Strategic Digital Communications

Office of Communications
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
University at Buffalo
168 Biomedical Education Building
3435 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214

(716) 829-5201


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Subject: www in subdomain url's
From: Robert Robinson <rnlro...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 14:13:11 +1000
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Dear all,

We're currently going through a major restructure of our web site and part
of that is setting up some new subdomains. We've done that and have them
redirecting to a single page for now while development of the new sites is
underway.

However, the fact that the subdomains we've set up are in the format
example.uow.edu.au an administrator is insisting that we set up
www.example.uow.edu.au redirects to the new domains just in case people put
in the www's "by mistake".

I've pointed out that we've had subdomains for years without the www's and
that redirects could have impacts around SEO.

What does everybody else do? Do you have defined practices around new
subdomains?

Should I stick to my guns, are the more arguments I'm missing, or should I
just relax and do it?

Cheers & thanks,

Rob

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Robert Robinson
Web Development Coordinator
University of Wollongong
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