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CelticDragon
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Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 7:30:29
Next question... 
If you have two sites (my case is festivestuff.com and festive-stuff.com) what should I do by way of submitting to search engines. For example, should I submit both domains to Google or should I submit one domain to google and another to MSN, etc or are there guidelines on best practise on this matter?
Stephen
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CelticDragon
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 10:24:30
That's what I thought to be honest but I do have them pointing to the same place just in case someone puts in the wrong one!
Cheers!
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Mojo
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 10:59:29
Delete one site immediately. You identical sites are viewed as duplicate content - or spam - by the search engines. I don't understand why you would have two seperate sites with the same content anyhow. If you only have one site, but are pointing two Domain names at it you still run the risk of tripping a duplicate content penalty. It has happened to me and thousands of other people.
Proceed at your own risk.
(submiting a site is so 1999)
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 11:09:26
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If you only have one site, but are pointing two Domain names at it you still run the risk of tripping a duplicate content penalty.
Mojo, this has sparked my interest.
So do you have any reccomendations as to how you'd go about using multiple domain names for the same site? For instance, if I want:
myDomain.com
myDomain.net
myDomain.us
myDomaine.com (assume a miss-spelling domain to catch those that may miss-spell it)
all to go to the same domain, how would I do it? Does Domain Masking take care of it or will that flag the SPAM sensors? To me, the above example is not SPAM but if the 'bots say it is then I will pay the penalty.
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CelticDragon
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 11:13:53
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ORIGINAL: Mojo
Delete one site immediately. You identical sites are viewed as duplicate content - or spam - by the search engines. I don't understand why you would have two seperate sites with the same content anyhow. If you only have one site, but are pointing two Domain names at it you still run the risk of tripping a duplicate content penalty. It has happened to me and thousands of other people.
Proceed at your own risk.
The main reason I have the two domains is I don't want someone else to jump on the bandwagon if I do a good site, granted festivestuff dot com isn't really an issue but for other sites it was.
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(submiting a site is so 1999)
haha! Still learning but for new sites (Like my Car Care one) I've tried to get it everywhere and not having a lot of luck!
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 11:15:57
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I don't want someone else to jump on the bandwagon if I do a good site, i buy the extra domain names and they sit idle.
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 13:35:05
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myDomain.com
myDomain.net
myDomain.us
myDomaine.com (assume a miss-spelling domain to catch those that may miss-spell it)
- Use some 301 redirect rules.
goto mrbobdouglas.com and then mrbobswebdesign.com
On the 1st domain, you will see the URL being rewritten to point to the 2nd domain.
Now goto mrbobdouglas.com/helpdesk notice that it gets sent to the 2nd domain/helpdesk.
If you want to see the code I can grab it, I just don't know the password and have to look it up to log in and take it.
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mar0364
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 13:40:50
Take a look at this.
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
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rdouglass
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 14:08:54
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- Use some 301 redirect rules.
goto mrbobdouglas.com and then mrbobswebdesign.com
On the 1st domain, you will see the URL being rewritten to point to the 2nd domain.
Now goto mrbobdouglas.com/helpdesk notice that it gets sent to the 2nd domain/helpdesk.
I understand already how to do that. I think that is exactly what Mojo was talking about. I think he was saying that if you did that, it would be flagged a SPAM'ing site.
What I was asking is if he had any suggestions or techniques to do it another way.
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 14:46:54
I thought Mojo was talking about when you have multiple domains with the same exact content? Which is sometimes called a "Parked Domain" where you can have msn.com, and msnetwork.com has the same information as msn.com, with a different domain.
A 301 redirect shouldn't negatively affect your rankings, since there is no "content" on the domain, it is just a redirect to the real domain.
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rdouglass
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RE: Two domains pointing to the same site - 10/21/2005 14:50:12
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A 301 redirect shouldn't negatively affect your rankings, since there is no "content" on the domain, it is just a redirect to the real domain.
That is probably the key right there. If that's the case, then I shouldn't have any issues with the 301 redirect.
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