Re: Whats up with the domains?

[Kevin Cox]

On Mar 3, 2012 5:26 AM, "David Nadlinger"  wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 05:12:31 UTC, Kevin wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK they are mirrors of each other, would it be best to make one a
redirect (smart, on a per-page level).
>
>
> This already happened after the discussion at
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/80#issuecomment-3939792,
and Google seems to have already picked it up.
>
> There are still quite a few links on the site pointing to the old
domains, though, see:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/94
>
> David

Wow, beat me to it.

And google has picked it up

Re: Whats up with the domains?

[David Nadlinger]

On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 05:12:31 UTC, Kevin wrote:
AFAIK they are mirrors of each other, would it be best to make 
one a redirect (smart, on a per-page level).


This already happened after the discussion at 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/80#issuecomment-3939792, 
and Google seems to have already picked it up.


There are still quite a few links on the site pointing to the old 
domains, though, see: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/94


David

Re: Whats up with the domains?

[Brad Anderson]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Kevin  wrote:

> I understand that this has been mentioned before but I think that it is
> important so I am going to bring it up again.
>
> I have been looking at the docs on dlang and d-programming-language.organd 
> was wondering which is the "preferred" website. I have seen
> dlang.org on the fourms most of the time but d-programming-language.orghas a 
> higher SOE ranking.  (I always find it with google)  Also, the
> searchbar at the top of dlang.org searched d-programming-language.org.
>
> AFAIK they are mirrors of each other, would it be best to make one a
> redirect (smart, on a per-page level).  This will help things such as
> consistency in documentation, and quite importantly SEO.  For documentation
> it is important to have a domain that will be around for a long time, with
> the two domains it appears that one will drop dead eventually.  I think
> redirects increase SEO but the extra traffic will definitely help.  Also
> that search-bar that always points to d-programming-language.org is
> probably helping it's ranking.
>
> Kevin
>

It appears a proper redirect was recently put in place (as of today or
yesterday, I think).  I no longer get d-programming-language.org results in
Google and hitting that site redirects you to dlang.org (and it works on a
per page basis and redirects to the correct location on the new domain).

Also, I just created this
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/pull/94
which
I think gets the remaining stragglers.

Regards,
Brad Anderson