I made a website forum and registered 2 domain names:
somewebsiteforum.com
somewebsiteforums.com
please note that they are not real domain names but only an example ... I registered one domain ending with Forum.com and one ending with Forums.com
I registered both because someone in the future could type forum or forums to get to my site, and it also makes it harder to copy the name of my site if someone tried to....
The question is should I point both domain names at 1 address or will the search engines take that as a duplicate and give me bad ranking because of it?
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2 Domain Names Pointing At 1 Website. Will Search Engines Think Its
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zone505
, Nov 19 2011 09:03 PM
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mickmel
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Posted 19 November 2011 - 09:42 PM
Just set up a 301 redirect so that they always end up at the same place. For example, if you type in "thefacebook.com", it quickly and quietly redirects to "facebook.com".
Same with www's -- choose with or without, and direct the other to it. For example, try "google.com" and it'll become "www.google.com".
Same with www's -- choose with or without, and direct the other to it. For example, try "google.com" and it'll become "www.google.com".
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zone505
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Posted 19 November 2011 - 09:48 PM
QUOTE(mickmel @ Nov 19 2011, 09:42 PM) 
Just set up a 301 redirect so that they always end up at the same place. For example, if you type in "thefacebook.com", it quickly and quietly redirects to "facebook.com".
Same with www's -- choose with or without, and direct the other to it. For example, try "google.com" and it'll become "www.google.com".
Same with www's -- choose with or without, and direct the other to it. For example, try "google.com" and it'll become "www.google.com".
I registered both domains at Godaddy, in my account at godaddy it has a setting to redirect the website address to my ip address, and this is what I have done for both domain names...
I'm just not sure what google or other engines will think of both domains going to one site...
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Jill
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Posted 19 November 2011 - 10:18 PM
Godaddy sucks and doesn't know how to do real 301s. Make sure whatever you do is a 301 and you'll be fine.
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