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Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO

#11

You're selling a redirect rule...? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Yes, hosted on geo-redundant servers, in excellent data centers, monitored 24/7.

You can't use a CNAME record for your root domain. This is a problem for me and lots of folks who run their web servers behind Amazon Elastic Load Balancers or other CNAME-based services. RootRedirect solves the problem nicely.

Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO

#13

You're selling a redirect rule...? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Or for you nginx users...

  server {
    server_name example.com;
    rewrite ^ http://www.example.com$request_uri? permanent;
  }

Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO

#16

You're selling a redirect rule...? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Yes, hosted on geo-redundant servers, in excellent data centers, monitored 24/7. You can't use a CNAME record for your root domain. This is a problem for me and lots of folks who run their web servers behind Amazon Elastic Load Balancers or other CNAME-based services. RootRedirect solves the problem nicely.

+1 for showing up to reply. I like it.

Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO

#17
post #7

Watch out, you are in the same market as wwwizer.com who offers the same product for free. You are going to have to distinguish yourself somehow to compete with that price.

Thanks for pointing this out. There are a number of similar free services.

For my business, I prefer paid services over a free ones. You never know when a free service will go down or the company bought and shut down.

Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO

#18
post #6
post #5

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So how do you do this on your own?

One can use the rule that clone1018 posted, for example.

So, separate question, since apparently I have a bunch of people here who understand this:

I need to track link clicks made on advertisements in our iPad app. I can't do it from the app because 1) our backend is open source, and they're not implementing that and 2) I don't know how anyways.

So I thought of using redirects. The link in the app goes to our site and gets redirected to the advertiser's site. That way I can track it with Google analytics and since i understand that, everything is peachy.

Therefore, the questions are: 1) is this an acceptable practice? and 2) is there a better, easier way that I'm unaware of?

Re: Show HN: RootRedirect for your domain, helps SEO

#19
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So how do you do this on your own?

https://www.google.com/search?ix=aca&sourceid=chrome&#38...

Thanks! Our web hosting (NearlyFreeSpeech.NET) had a button I could click and it did it automatically.
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