The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173030   Message #4195827
Posted By: Max
19-Jan-24 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Tech: can only get to mudcat through links on
Subject: RE: Tech: can only get to mudcat through links on
I believe I have it set right now. What should happen is that when someone goes to www.mudcat.org it is redirected to mudcat.org automatically.

After the last crash, I didn't set that up again properly because my browser does it for me for some reason, which was why folks were having the trouble with the www.

The reason why its redirected, why I do it this way, is that all the Google search rankings, server settings, and stats are split up if some folks go to www and others to just mudcat. They are treated as 2 separate sites/pages, when in fact they are not. That does a disservice to us as far as showing up in search results and my seeing correct information as to who and how many people are visiting us. The redirecting to a single URL (canonical) gives us our true place in the family of things.

Sorry for any trouble.

max