: SaaS Platform and multiple possible domains I have a SaaS platform where people can create their own white labeled job boards. My main product domain is www.myproductdomain.com When clients sign
I have a SaaS platform where people can create their own white labeled job boards.
My main product domain is myproductdomain.com
When clients sign up they automatically get clientname.myproductdomain.com. They can also choose to use a custom domain by setting up a CNAME.
This means that every client by default has at least one domain, but could have two pointing to the same content if they choose to use a custom domain, i.e.:
clientname.myproductname.com <-- default subdomain on sign up clientname.com <-- if they choose to setup a CNAME and have a custom domain
This essentially means there is duplicate content. In the above scenario, when Google hits the default clientname.myproductname.com domain, I do a 301 redirect to their custom domain. Does this seem problematic? Is there a better approach?
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A redirect to the preferred or canonical name is a great solution. The term for this is URL canonicalization and it is very common practice for search engine optimization.
Instead of redirects, you could choose to use meta robots canonical tags.
You might also want to support multiple CNAMEs per client. For example, I might want to have both of these URLs working:
jobs.example.com/ http://www.jobs.example.com/
I would probably want to pick the one without the www as the canonical one and have the other redirect to the preferred version.
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