Proxy Server & Wordpress - Need Help

[SavikaTilakhdin]

I'm looking for some guidance/expert opinions on using a proxy server with Wordpress. When a consumer goes to ourwebsite.com/blog, our IT department would like to set up the request to be “proxied” to the Wordpress Blog site. They would like to add  a header  to the web request to identify that traffic as coming from through the proper URL.  Should someone or a crawler attempt to access the WordPress site directly (blog.ourwebsite.com) they would be client side redirected to the proper URL ourwebsite.com/blog.

This is WAY out of my league here, so I figured I would ask the experts. Will this negatively effect our SEO?

[RobertFisher]

Mandi,

I think you are meaning redirected as opposed to proxied. (Canonical in this case - from GWMT)

Two ways:

• Add a rel="canonical" link to the  section of the non-canonical version of each HTML page.

  To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, create a element as follows:

  Copy this link into the  section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&sort=price.

  If you publish content on both http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish and https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, you can specify the canonical version of the page. Create the  element:

  Add this link to the  section of https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish.

• **Indicate the canonical version of a URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header.**Adding rel="canonical" to the head section of a page is useful for HTML content, but it can't be used for PDFs and other file types indexed by Google Web Search. In these cases you can indicate a canonical URL by responding with the Link rel="canonical" HTTP header, like this (note that to use this option, you'll need to be able to configure your server):

Hope this helps,

Robert