If you're using shared server space, though, no need to spend money on a bunch of separate sites if they all need to use the same codebase. Just point them all the same IP, which I would do even if they're all on separate sites but the same server, but then I get to really have all the code in one place, with only having separate directories for site assets (CSS, HTML templates, images, file resources), just like Mura or other CMS systems do. I don't think SEO would have any way of knowing whether or not the site was set up separately in IIS or it was one app serving content on each domain through a single site in IIS. As for webstats, I go with Google Analytics, which is JS-based tracking, so the logs of the site itself are irrelevant because I don't find the need to do deep web server diagnostics.
---------------------------------------- From: "Russ Michaels" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:21 PM To: "cf-talk" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Feedback on this approach to "many sites, one codebase" (MSOC) FYI it is actually a best practice these days to only have 1 domain accessing your site and to redirect all others to that domain (including www) whether doing it in your code or using url redirection. You saw one of the reasons which is managing your code base, other reasons include web stats traffic (which usually only tracks the primary domain), SEO (which supposedly doesn't like multiple domains pointing to same site). -- Russ Michaels www.bluethunderinternet.com : Business hosting services & solutions www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion developer community www.michaels.me.uk : my blog www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine ** *skype me* : russmichaels ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342404 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
