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On 2013-09-11 05:44, Marc Gemis wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I believe that there was a blog post on Coding
Error that stackoverflow got most traffic via google search.
Google is the dominant search engine, whether we like it or not.
Anyhow, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is something you cannot
neglect as a business. But the domain name is not that relevant
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I'm pretty much on top of that subject professionally, try to follow
me on this: when you have the same pages on different domains, your
domains will compete with eachother as they are exactly the same, if
you don't redirect correctly. Hence why I mention to do this the
right way as I see it too many times that people buy every domain
they can think of. Next to that google will crawl every domain
seperately as it has no idea it's the same, so your traffic will
grow exponentially. On a static site, that is usually not an
issue, but once you go drupal/wordpress/joomla/etc... your server
will get hits. I've had this happen to huge customers
(agenda.nieuwsblad.be for example). The servers that do this where
dying just because crawlers had a free pass, everyone came by,
Russian, Chinese , Google , Bing, fake google bots, bots not
respecting your robots.txt, etc etc ... this accounted for more than
60% of the traffic, those numbers went into the terrabytes
monthly. So by just limiting and holding google's hand instead of
buying new servers as the customer planned, this platform is now
doing almost nothing and analytics do not suffer.<br>
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Here is a site explaining this in more detail:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.k2seo.com/competing-with-yourself/">http://www.k2seo.com/competing-with-yourself/</a><br>
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<div>Search for "rent a room in new york" and the top hit is <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://airbnb.com">airbnb.com</a>
. No "room", "rent" nor "NY" in the name. Content, metatag,
links from other sites, url of pages etc. all play a role.
Google only give hints on what their algorithm uses, all the
rest are guesses.</div>
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I fail to see the point of the statement in this context. My point
was sending a warning to pay attention to multiple sites serving the
exact same content (alias domains).<br>
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<div>I would also stick the to naming convention used in the
other countries so <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://openstreetmap.be">openstreetmap.be</a></div>
<div>(there are e.g. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://openstreetmap.nl">openstreetmap.nl</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://openstreetmap.fr">openstreetmap.fr</a>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://openstreetmap.de">openstreetmap.de</a>
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Also what technology are they using for their sites ? Their
communities (especially the German one) are larger and they
might develop reusable components, that can be used on other
sites. And what is the main <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://openstreetmap.org">openstreetmap.org</a> using
(read it somewhere but forgot it)</div>
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openstreetmaps.org uses Ruby on Rails, the code is available here :
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<a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website">https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website</a><br>
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Glenn<br>
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