multiple domain names to same site

noworyz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 83

I was wondering the best process for having multiple domain names point to the same site. The second domain is mainly used for misspelling.

I understand that it would be considered duplicate content to have the exact same pages so what is the bet thing to do?

Thanks

ultimatehandyman · PR2 Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

When I started my site at first I read an e-book that said that you should get as many domain names as possible and link them all to your main site. I did this ad got banned from Google, until I removed the other domain names.

I would not risk it.

Perhaps you could just put a landing page on the mis-spelt domain and put on something like you have landed "here" instead of "here" if you want to go to "here" then please click here Wink

I'm sure you get the drift Wink

noworyz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 83

your solution makes sense but I think it is crazy that multiple domains is a bad thing. even google has more than one domain. .com and .net go to .com

ultimatehandyman · PR2 Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

They are the same domain with a different extension!

If all the domain names that you have are identical, but end with .com .co.uk .info .net etc. then I cannot see a problem with it.

For my site I have .co.uk and .eu and they both point to my site!

If this is bad then I will change the .eu once it has been confirmed, but I feel that this is OK.

noworyz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 83

how about google.com and gooogle.com

they both go to google.com so it must be possible.

I am actually reading some stuff that says you can do it with 301 redirects via apache mod rewrite

ultimatehandyman · PR2 Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

noworyz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 83

i'm hoping so. This seems to be quite the common thing to do so there has to be some sort of way to do this without penalty

ultimatehandyman · PR2 Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

dcz or one of the other experts on here will know for sure Wink

dcz

You can use the www prefix redirection, method number two.

It will redirect anything linked to this server but the domain mentioned, with or without the www prefix.

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noworyz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 83

ok, so if I have domain1.com and domain2.com, I need to point both domains to the same site and then use htaccess to redirect domain2 to domain1?

an I use domain alias to get the 2nd domain pointed at the first domain and then do the .htacess for the redirect on the domain1 website

or where exactly do I define the .htaccess for the second domain?

dcz

Well, would be better to start or reply to another topic here I think.

The principle won't be to redirect domain1 to domain2 but to redirect anything but domain2, eg domain1 but not only, all cases at once, all domains + www prefix Wink

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noworyz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 83

ok, i'm a little confused

lets say I have an existing website with mydomain.com

I want to register another domain name to catch a common misspelling. SO i register the new name and want it 301 redirected to the existing domain?

what are the steps to go through to accomplish this? (might as well start form the beginning)

hopster · PR0 Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 59

Here is what I want to know...

How the heck does the guy at gokartsrus.com and go-cartsrus.com get away with this??

These two sites have mirror content, but he is VERY well indexed and very well ranked in his niche.

dcz

noworyz · PR0 Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 83

Ok, I was confused on that too as this was my topic to begin with on what I thought was the same subject. Where should I create a new topic at?