in reply to www.perlmonks.org vs. perlmonks.org

www.perlmonks.org, perlmonks.org, www.perlmonks.com, perlmonks.com, www.perlmonks.net and perlmonks.net all resolve to the same two addresses (66.39.54.27 and 209.197.123.153)
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Re^2: www.perlmonks.org vs. perlmonks.org
by lidden (Curate) on Oct 31, 2010 at 00:21 UTC
    www.perlmonks.org has a different robots.txt from the other five. I guess that is a bug.
      No, we don't want search engines indexing multiple version of the same page. It dilutes their usefulness and possibly the ranking of the pages.
        For SEO purposes I think it would be better to have a single live site and the rest should redirect to the same address.

        As it is now, some people will link to http://www.perlmonks.org/ others to http://perlmonks.org/ and the other addresses. That will divide the inbound links and reduce the page rank of each page. That's true for all the nodes.

        -- Weekend SEO expert

      I guess that is a bug.

      Going by the comment in perlmonks.org/robots.txt, it is not a bug, but rather deliberate.

      Perhaps, www.perlmonks.org, serves only periodic, static snapshots, rather than server intensive, dynamic content?