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BobbyDouglas
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Parked Domains & Google - 4/13/2005 23:25:02
Has anyone done recent testing with Google & parked domains?
I know in the past there has been quite a bit of information regarding how it has made no changes for some people, but others have noticed a negative change. Is this still true?
Someone has e-mail setup on both domain1.com and domain2.com. But the actual hosting account is setup under domain1.com, and domain2.com is parked on top of domain1.com.
domain2.com always brings up the content of domain1.com, however it domain2.com is still linked to from various other websites.
Anyone with recent experience care to address this issue, once again.
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RE: Parked Domains & Google - 4/14/2005 11:33:25
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domain2.com always brings up the content of domain1.com, however it domain2.com is still linked to from various other websites.
You *may* be asking for trouble. As you said, there is a lot of speculation both for or against. Here's my take:
Since domain2 has external links it could be looked at as a seperate site - there could be duplicate content issues. I should stress *could* because it seems that the dupe content filters are really hit and miss on Google. Often, they seem to hit the wrong sites anyhow...
Another issue is how domain2 is being pointed to domain1? Are you redirecting it yourself, or is the registrar issuing the redirect? Both can have problems. If your doing it yourself watch out that your not issuing a 302 (Moved Temporarily) redirect. If your doing a response.redirect your likely sending a 302 server code to browsers and search engines alike.
This means is has been moved temporarily - Go to this new URL and index that page content using this (old) URL. This could have *huge* implications as domain1 content is cached to the URL of domain2. Domain1 *could* take the rankings of domain2 in this instance. The domain forwarding offered by many registrars likely uses a 302 redirect - be aware.
If you find that domain2 has been indexed you really need to make a change.
Personally, I stopped pointing domains to any site that I value. If for some reason I was forced to do it (popular typo of main site etc.) here is what I would do:
- Point the redirecting domains to a seperate IP block
- set up robots.txt to exclude on that IP
- use a 301 (Moved Permanently) redirect to the main domain
This may be overkill. You could try just having a 301 redirect go straight to the domain, but there are also possibilities of getting in trouble over that... imagine you have external links going to your forwarded domains. These domains have some PR being transfered to them by the links. If your using a 301 the PR should transfer to the main domain. A suspecious person or search engine *could* think you're trying to funnel PR from many sites into your main site. Game Over.
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RE: Parked Domains & Google - 4/24/2005 15:51:14
What do you mean by " - set up robots.txt to exclude on that IP "
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