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Re:Is it safe to give part of your domain url to redirect to... by toast0 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @01:23PM (#40812839)
You need to be very careful with cookies. I wouldn't do it unless there's a real compelling business reason, and even then, when I've done it in the past, we did it with a totally different domain. Ex: I worked at yahoo travel, travel.yahoo.com, we did cobranded pages with vendors; cruise bookings happened on cruises.travel.yahoo.net

I've also seen integration specific domains get used, but ownership of the domain can get complicated, IMHO a subdomain is the right thing to use, but it shouldn't be your primary user-facing domain.

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Re:Is it safe to give part of your domain url to redirect to... by ResumeFromSpace on Friday June 28, 2024 @12:16PM (#40822134)
Sorry for long reply.

I think I need to give more context here.

So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com

The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those.

He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings.

When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see:

- Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply

Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built)

Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project.

Thanks, Dan

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