Hi all,
I have read the extensive discussions on this great site re: 301, 302, etc.etc. but am getting more confused. HELP!
I have a forum at www.myforum.com. Someone has approached me to private label my forum into their domain. They are hosted as www.theirdomain.com (different host of course).
They want to set up forums.theirdomain.com to have the forums, but still hosted with me.
How do I accomplish this, so that:
1. I only have one db for forums, on my system
2. url would say forums.theirdomain.com (I think 301 is out because of this~~ how about 302).
3. google will not slap a duplicate penalty
Thank you very much for your help.
steve
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Private Label My Forum: Domain Redirect Issues
Started by
steven111
, Dec 15 2004 06:02 PM
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Randy
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Posted 15 December 2004 - 08:52 PM
Hey Steve,
The bottom line is that if your forums are available under two different URL addresses, they're eventually going to be seen as duplicate content. Because, well they are!
So if you want both to show up in the SERPs that's just not going to be possible long term. It may take the engines awhile to catch on, but they will.
Do the folks who want you to private label it plan on trying to get it listed in the SERPs? If not, they could simply restrict spider access to the forums.theirdomain.com sub-domain via a robots.txt file and there would be no problems. They would still get the benefit of your forum for their visitors, you would still get search engine listings.
Same thing in reverse if you don't care about search engine rankings for your domain.
As far as how to set it up so that the content shows up on their sub-domain, even though it's being hosted on your site/server, that's not too terribly tough to do if you both have control over your DNS. Simply have them set up an A record on their end that points the forum.theirdomain.com over to the IP number your site is on.
And do the same on your end also to reflect their domain name, but your IP. Piece of cake really, if you have control over your DNS.
The bottom line is that if your forums are available under two different URL addresses, they're eventually going to be seen as duplicate content. Because, well they are!
So if you want both to show up in the SERPs that's just not going to be possible long term. It may take the engines awhile to catch on, but they will.
Do the folks who want you to private label it plan on trying to get it listed in the SERPs? If not, they could simply restrict spider access to the forums.theirdomain.com sub-domain via a robots.txt file and there would be no problems. They would still get the benefit of your forum for their visitors, you would still get search engine listings.
Same thing in reverse if you don't care about search engine rankings for your domain.
As far as how to set it up so that the content shows up on their sub-domain, even though it's being hosted on your site/server, that's not too terribly tough to do if you both have control over your DNS. Simply have them set up an A record on their end that points the forum.theirdomain.com over to the IP number your site is on.
And do the same on your end also to reflect their domain name, but your IP. Piece of cake really, if you have control over your DNS.
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