This is my first post so please bare with me...
I currently run a site (informative, non-commercial)
that has a country specific extension
but for some reasons I never have really
been satisfied with this situation altough it's
a really good name the site itself is far from country specific.
I've recently bought a .com domain and the .net &
.org for the same name.
Now first of all I find myself quiet good positioned on google with the country specific domain.
I was planning on pointing the .com .org .net to the
same site (dns wise, meaning no redirects).
But browsing trough these forums got me quiet confused.
I've read that if you point all domains to the same
site it's all good, in another thread i've read that I
should be doing redirects (302).
All in all basically, my current google (country specific domain) position is good but I feel that from a users/public point of view my site would get alot more recognision with the .com/net/org names.
I could build/start a new website with the new domain(s)
and share "some" of it's contents with the other one.
but I'm a bit scared I will eventually be wasting my time
promoting the .com instead of focusing on content in general.
All tips, suggestions, and remarks are more then welcome.
Sorry for possible spelling mistakes.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!
It's rather quiet here this weekend, as the events of Saturday morning (USA) seem to have had an effect...
Using a 301 (not 302) redirect from several domains to one domain tells the search engines that "Yes, I've got several domain names, and they all point to the same content, and no trick is intended."
Further, is is recommended that you only promote one of these TLDs to avoid being accused by man or machine of attempted duplicate-content spamming.
There may be some better wisdom available here on WebmasterWorld concerning whether this last bit is applicable to country-specific TLDs, but I've had best results using a 301 and attempting to promote only one of a site's top-level domains. In other words, I've used multiple TLDs to cover branding and type-in errors, and not as promotional tricks.
Best,
Jim
If I understand correctly I should be using 301 redirects
and never promote that domainname. So there's actually no way to get the word out that my site is available trough
that domain aswel. For example I can't put up a notice
on the home page that my site is also available trough
that domainname?
Hmm
Or what about putting a link where the text is the actual domainname and the link itself leads to a /cgi-bin/link.cgi?id=000 directory which I specified in my robots.txt not to be spidered?
Kind regards and thanks again for your feedback!
