[thelist] True Park bad for SEO?

David Kaufman david at gigawatt.com
Wed Mar 3 12:45:40 CST 2010


Hi Amy,

Jeff Hinds wrote:
> You should set a 301 server redirect on the less important Domain to
> redirect it to the domain that is important.
>
> Jeff

Agreed -- here's some reasons why:

Duplicate content
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359

Official Google Webmaster Blog: Deftly dealing with duplicate content
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Demystifying the "duplicate 
content penalty"
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

hth,

-dave

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Amy Johnson<amy at rocky-hills.com>  wrote:
>
>> I have a client whose ecommerce site experiences dramatic ups and downs in
>> his Google ranking and we can't really figure out why.  He has two domain
>> names for the site and he thinks that his hosting company (which is very
>> small) is wrong in using a "true park" for his two domain names and that is
>> the problem.  Can anyone shed some light on the best way to have two domain
>> names pointing to one site for SEO?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Amy




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