Domain redirect

[Starseed]

I was wondering if someone could recommend the best way to have a domain redirect to another without a negative effect search engine wise. I have a .com domain and registered the .net to match and would like to have the .net go to the .com. I don't want it to be viewed by the engines as a mirror of the .com though.

[Marcia]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, starseed. Here's a step by step tutorial that you'll find extremely helpful:

Redirecting URLs on an Apache Server [webmasterworld.com]

[Starseed]

Thanks for the lead, but I'm still a bit unclear. Can anyone provide a specific example of how to redirect [yoursite.net...] to [yoursite.com?...] I am currently using a pointer, but I am unsure how the search engines will see this. Will they see it as two sites with duplicate content? Thanks in advance for the patience and help.

[incywincy]

in the www.yoursite.net block of the httpd.conf file you could insert the following line:

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ [yoursite.com...] [R=301]

this is a permanent redirect and as such you shouldn't suffer from any duplicate content issues.

however i am not an apache expert so maybe someone could confirm this

[riley coyote]

-->>Redirecting URLs on an Apache Server

Is there information for this on a NT server?

[DaveAtIFG]

There's a pretty informative thread here [webmasterworld.com] about IIS redirects. If that doesn't do it, try this search [alltheweb.com].