Domain names and SEO
Hi Kristoffer, I read your blog and articles about Joomla and now that you are skille in Web and SEO. I have been working with Joomla sites for about three years and are now learning more about how google interprets information on a joomla site.
There are some things I don´t understand and maybe you could help or advise me where to look. If I have a site URL sitename.com and people writes www.sitename.com, how does google analytics interprets that? also if I use the "sitename.index.php" what effect on statistics and indexing would that have on my site?
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Hi Micke,
you should use the Google Webmaster tools to choose your primary domain (ie sitename.com or www.sitename.com).
For Analytics, it doesn't matter.
If you have sitename.com/index.php and other variants, like sitename.com/index.php?parameter=value, you can end up with duplicate URLs indexed. That is not good.
You can use sh404SEF or a similar SEF component to avoid this. Or an extension that creates canonical meta tags in your pages.
Good luck!References:
