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SEO improvement for DotTel domains Search engines such as Google treat http://Domains123.com and http://www.Domains123.com as 2 seperate web addresses for indexing purposes. It is advisable to decide which one you are going to use and ensure that any links containing the alternative version redirect to the preferred version. You can do this with a dotcom etc either within Google Webmaster Tools or by using a simple script so that for examplehttp://Domains123.com will always redirect to http://www.Domains123.com But within DotTel you can't of course do this - so if links are found by search engines to DotTel versions both with and without the www prefix there is a danger of a duplicate contect penalty being applied by the search engine. Even if no penalty is applied by the search engine there is still a messy situation with 2 different web addresses leading to the same content. Please can we have a setting on the Dottel account so that you can choose whether your preferred domain has the www prefix or not - or alternatively a policy decision made by Telnic so that DotTels with a www prefix will always redirect to the non-www prefix as this seems to be the de-facto standard. Thanks in anticipation. |
Hi. With .tel domains, the 'www' folder cannot be created. It's reserved for special behaviour. The system creates a www equivalent for each folder and there's an A record in it if you do a dig. The proxy then has logic to strip the leading "www." and display the actual .tel content. This behaviour may change in the future. |
Hi Nadya, Thanks for your reply but unfortunately it doesn't resolve the issue. If you click http://www.mikeseaton.tel and then http://mikeseaton.tel the content is identical and that is what the search engines will see - 2 web addresses with identical content which usually means a penalty in a domain's ranking. For DotTel domains I use the version without the www prefix when linking from my conventional web sites but what is happening is that the search engines are making a decision as to which version they list in their results since they have 2 to choose from. Bing query http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Amikeseaton.tel shows the version without the www (http://mikeseaton.tel ) whereas Bing query http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Adomains123.tel shows the version with the www (http://www.domains123.tel). This inconsistency and likely duplicate content penalty could be avoided with a simple built-in (or user specified) redirect - so that http://www.mikeseaton.tel would automatically be redirected tohttp://mikeseaton.tel I hope you will consider adding this to the roadmap soon - avoidance of duplicate content penalty and consistency of display will help DotTel domains gain more visibility in search engine results which will benefit us all. Regards, Mike Seaton. |
I agree and I think it's a MAJOR feature so please provide this ASAP. Search engines are important as you know so you must build .tel architecture to optimize .tel ... _____________ Nicolas Chevallier |
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Very good point Mike. I'm glad you brought it up.[/size] |
Hi all, As I understand it, we are going to implement the canonical flag for Google to understand that the preferred version of your .tel page is without "www." . This should resolve the issue. This feature is on our roadmap and has a good chance of appearing pretty soon. |
As an ordinary user of a TEL, and not a programmist, I just wanted to ask - it is better to write at TEL a full address of a link:www.domain.com or to write the same address without "www." : domain.com ? |
The solution, as Nadya said, is the Canonical flag. It's going to happen soon. However, Google and all other engines already discount "www." as being the same as without it. Don't worry about that. @maximka, it all depends who your target audience is. We found that if you want uneducated people to know right away it can be found on the web, prepend "www.". Otherwise you can do without. Also, if you have "http://" then you don't need to also add "www.", they both show it's a web address. |
hasseily, thank you! |
Thanks Henri that was as good point brought up and talked about. |
