4 replies to this topic

[JoeDigital]

if I have three domain names pointing to the same website. will google yahoo or any other search engine think that I am spamming them? or is this ok to do? will this help my seo or hurt my seo because of duplicate content maybee?


thanks alot

[Gatorhardware]

What we have run into with this same thing is google will index the domains with the same content and only allow one to rank well. The others were dropped off below 1000. IMO I would pick one and work on just that one. Not only that when you start building links they could get spread out over the domains. Instead you would want all the links to just one.

[paulbedford]

If you are using Apache you can set up a .htaccess file to redirect two domains to the one you want to use.

[blackpool]

Paul, could you explain how to set up the .htaccess file and what to put in it to set up the redirects you talk about.

[Randy]

JoeDigital: It would depend upon how you're doing the redirect. A true redirect shouldn't cause any Dupe Content issues. Some of those ways will cause exactly that though, to you have to make sure you're dotting your i's and crossing your t's.

BlackPool: There's a pinned discussion here with examples of various types of server level redirects. To forward from one domain name to another the best is usually the simplest, a standard Redirect 301 directive.