Hey all...
Just had a customer call stating that they wanted us to perform a 301 redirect for all of their pointed domains. This is not a problem as long as you have the same number of unique sites in IIS to perform the redirect. His reasoning is that certain search engines (Yahoo!, not Google) penalize the results for sites when they appear numerous times from different domains to the same IP address via a standard domain pointer.
Well, it is against Hostmysites policy and TOS (Terms of Service) to provide the equivilent of more than one site without it being paid for. So as far as this goes we cannot perform this for you.
HOWEVER... you can do this for you and it works wonderfully!!! Via the wonders of ASP we can modify the headers to state that a 301 Permanent Redirect is occuring... So here's the code for anybody else interested...
dim safeURL
'***** ONLY CHANGE THE LINE BELOW *****
safeURL = "YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME_HERE.com" 'domain name WITHOUT the www. prefix
'***** ONLY CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE *****
dim requestedURL
dim requestedWithPre
dim pre
dim sendTo
pre = "www."
requestedURL = LCase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"))
If InStr(1, requestedURL, "www.", 1) = 1 Then requestedWithPre = True
If (requestedURL <> safeURL) AND (requestedURL <> pre & safeURL) Then
sendTo = "http://"
If requestedWithPre Then
sendTo = sendTo & pre & safeURL
Else
sendTo = sendTo & safeURL
End If
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", sendTo
End If |
