Comments on: First version of Free CDN WP plugin released!

By: Mike Colburn

Mike Colburn — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:21:04 +0000

I doubt it will affect SEO. The HTML is still coming from http://www.domain.com. Your TAGs and content will still show. The only thing this plug-in is doing is loading images, js, css files from another location. If you use SiteMap.xml files, then google, bing, yahoo etc will still index your site properly. The text on the page will still be searchable by the search engines.
- Mike C

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:38:29 +0000

Hi, actually I don’t think this affects SEO, as it only rewrites static contents such as javascript, css, and images. The most important thing for search engines is always the content, which is plugin-independent.

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:01:41 +0000

How would the plugin affect SEO if at all?

By: Pranshu

Pranshu — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:26:33 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for this plugin. I’m using it on my WordPress plugin and after a bit of tweaking it’s working great!

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:07:28 +0000

Hi Thaya,
At first site the only major different is that my plugin only applies rewriting on static contents. Apart from that, imo using a plugin is always safer (and sometimes the only choice) than touching .htaccess. In the future I will add some more features too.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:10:24 +0000

You’re welcome and congratulations on your new plugin! I have a question though. What’s the benefit of this versus using htaccess? (http://badpopcorn.com/blog/2006/04/22/coral-cache-and-htaccess/)

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:52:51 +0000

Hi Mike, please check your email.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:44:01 +0000

I’ve had a lot of experiences with CDNs. Usually to implement one, you simply need to specify a URL which is a CNAME that points to a CDN host. So as long as the plug in allows you to specify a host, then it could be used with just about any CDN.
So it wouldn’t necessarily need to be called STATIC.domain.com. It could be anything. The issues I’ve had with using CMS like WP or Joomla, is it makes it very difficult to use a CDN with them. You’d have to manually embed pieces of content.
With your plug-in one would simply specify the type of content (jpg, css, js, ect) and then specify a “pre-pend url” that would work with the CDN. I imagine you’d be able to sell a plug in like that.
Let me know your thoughts.
- Mike

By: phoenix.heart

phoenix.heart — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:04:13 +0000

Actually I’m not very sure that adding such a feature is suitable for this plugin. As you can tell from the name, it’s for free CDNs (starting with Coral) only. Also I don’t know if your case (prepending a “static” prefix) is common – you know, a plugin should serve majority’s purpose.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:58:55 +0000

Great! Is that something you’re willing to add to the plugin? I have an immediate need for it. Thanks!