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Will pointed domain cause search engine issues?

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  • 24-05-2006 12:06pm
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    Bananna man
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    I am setting up a site which will have two domains pointed to it. Will this cause problems when search engines are ranking the site?

    Thanks


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    mneylon
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    It depends what you do with the domain. If you simply point the second domain as an alias and don't actively promote it you will be fine. If, however, you promote the second domain to the search engines you could easily end up being penalised for duplicate content

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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Serbian


    Bananna man wrote:
    Hey,

    I am setting up a site which will have two domains pointed to it. Will this cause problems when search engines are ranking the site?

    Thanks

    The best thing to do in this situation is to choose which of the two domains is the primary domain and use a 301 redirect to point the secondary domain at the primary one. Like Blacknight says, you could be done for duplicate content and get banned from Google or other search engines if you don't.

    I found this guide on doing 301 redirects for Unix servers, but there are lots of ways of doing it (including through most scripting languages). Google should provide the answers you need.


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