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I have a corporate client (for just one of their many sites) with a fair number of domain names for each of several product lines, so we're talking about a lot of domain names. They have domains for everything from misspellings to protecting brand names to territoriality issues ("if we don't have this, one of our competitors will use it")... and they currently have the relevant domains pointed at each product site, in effect creating many mirror sites.
When I suggested that they eliminate the mirrors and use 301 redirects to the main sites, I came up against an argument that I hadn't encountered before. They don't have their own hosting, and they said that it's cheaper to point domains than it is to host them separately and use 301s.
They're incredibly tight with their money, so my standard SEO arguments haven't been enough to persuade them that avoiding mirror sites is worth the extra money... and I know hardly anything about servers, so I couldn't argue with them on those grounds.
Someone from a hosting company I spoke with briefly told me that there is a way to set up the servername aliases, as I think he called them, so they would point to the main site... and then to apply some sort of command forcing the server name to the main domain. I couldn't follow what he was telling me in the time we had. Can anyone explain?
While he would have enjoyed spending the night with the other person more, this one was ok too.
Absolutely classic posts....
Andreas
