[Web4lib] multiple host header values and google analytics

[Will Kurt]

Time and a 301 redirect are all you need.  It's helpful to notify 
people of a domain name change, but you've already done that.  It 
isn't that big of a deal to change domain names as long as you can 
still redirect from the old one. If you have valuable content that 
people use Google will adjust.  I've moved my site down a directory 
which was enough to throw off its Google page rank completely, I was 
really worried at first, but it was only temporary.  Give it a few 
months and you'll see you page rank return to normal.  In the 
meantime I doubt you'll loose any current users, and in the long run 
the effect will be minimal.

--Will

At 04:34 PM 4/17/2007, tedbazemore at yahoo.com wrote:
>Our web site has a bit of an identity crisis. Because so many pages 
>that link to us use an old domain name, we use multiple host header 
>values that resolve to the same ip address. I've asked people to 
>change their links, but you sure can't make them. So I've just dealt with it
>
>However, last week after setting up a Google Analytics account I 
>realized this is an issue. After adding the tracking code, I 
>suddenly realized that the old address (which has a much higher page 
>rank) was not being tracked...
>
>I see this page that explains how to install GA on multiple domains 
>- 
>http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=45481but 
>  if I read their directions properly, they are assuming that the 
>pages are actually different. They are not.
>
>Has anyone else tackled this problem?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ted
>
>
>
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