5 replies to this topic

[andruha]

Quick question about subdomains.
Ok, I have few pages that are indexed and I wanted them to look more professional on google. So, I made subdomains on godaddy. They work and all, but google shows the old, long url. How do I make it show the short subdomain url instead of the long one?

EX:

google shows: www.example.com/XXXXX/YYYYY.html

I want google to show: www.subdomain.example.com

btw, someone told me that they have a "script which looks up the subdomain and then returns the actual URL to redirect to".

[Randy]

301 redirect requests to the long url to the short one. If you're on a linux system, and assuming the content actually lives at the longer address, you'll need to use {THE_REQUEST} in your RewriteCond to make sure you capture the actual request as sent by the browser. Otherwise you'll end up creating an endless loop.

Though I'm not at all clear on why you're doing this in the first place. It sounds a little convoluted to me on the surface.

[Michael-F]

It makes more sense to me to cut it down to example.com/page than it does to cut it to page.example.com. Subdomains should be used to separate different sections of the site rather than different pages.

[andruha]

It makes more sense to me to cut it down to example.com/page than it does to cut it to page.example.com. Subdomains should be used to separate different sections of the site rather than different pages.

It is a different section of the site.

[Michael-F]

It is a different section of the site.

Excellent!

[Jill]

It's still an unnecessary hassle and apparently a technical nightmare.