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Daily SEO Tip - To WWW or not to WWW
That is the canonicalization question! When you talk about your site being listed with and without the www prefix, that’s called the canonicalization of your domain. Basically, it just refers to your preferred URL for a site, whether that’s with the www prefix or without.
Search engines can sometimes index both versions of your domain, creating duplicate content headaches for you and also link popularity dilution. For those reasons, I strongly recommend you decide which URL version you are happiest with and implement 301 permanent redirects at the server end to ensure your preferred version is served no matter which version is typed in.
Your web administrator or SEO Consultant can assist you in setting up a 301 redirect.
Master of my own domain - update
Back in April I wrote about securing my real name (Mike Allan) as a domain. I pointed the main domain to this site and I’ve pretty much left it alone.
When I was off this past weekend I read Douglas Coupland’s 1995 book “Microserfs.” If you haven’t read the book I won’t give away too much, but suffice it to say that for me the central theme to the book was that geeks need to have lives outside of their work environment.
That hit home pretty hard for me. Since I first became involved in the new media business 14 years ago I have always had my day job and a side business involved in the creation of media. Essentially I was a 24 / 7 new media geek. But lately I’ve been going through some issues that opened my eyes to the fact that I can’t be a geek 24/7. Like the characters in the book, I need to get a life outside of my geekdom.
So I am setting up a “personal” blog as a sub domain of mikeallan.com . This will cover off other topics of interest to me, such as our retired racing greyhound, being the father to a tween and a teen, and various other subjects I’ll tackle when they come up. It will be like an online journal for me.
Writing a blog not on tech subjects is essentially still creating media, but it is different as I am writing from my heart, not my brain. If you know what I mean. I’m not sharing my knowledge, I’m sharing ME, the person, not the geek.
This is all new for me, and I’m excited and looking forward to it at the same time. And it was all because of a book. About geeks getting a life.
The Last Gasp for Media Duplication
I have been involved in media duplication for 30 years. I started out duplicating Betamax, UMatic or 3/4 inch and VHS with a company called Videcomm. Over the years I’ve seen formats come and go; VHS is finally biting the dust, and for the last decade of my career I’ve been working with disc media.
Recently a client called and asked if we could do USB/Flash key duplication. I spoke to my colleagues in the duplication department and also to our Ottawa office and apparently USB/Flash key duplication is on the rise. So media duplication has a last gasp in the form of USB/Flash keys. Oh sure we still have CD, DVD and BluRay, but after that I predict that physical media duplication will die off.
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