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My question is what is the best way to redirect the newer site (widget.net) to point to our normal site that has good PR and not run into any problems. Should we just take (widget.net) offline completely, or use some type of redirect, and what would be the best method to use. I do not believe the original page PR has been hurt yet. I do not believe they have realized it it same content.
Should we just put a link on (widget.net) to link to the regular site?
Use a 301 redirect this will send users direct to your main domain. It will also tell search engine spiders that content has been moved and send then also to your propper domain.
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you could use something like this in a text file and save it as .htaccess
redirect 301 / [you.com...]
You then place this in the root directory of the site you dont want used and point you.com to your main site.
In other words, will it think that (widget.com) is a brand new site because we had the other site (widget.net) forward to this?
Will we get penalised because the newer page (widget.net) shows up in some search engines allready with the same title as our older page, and if I use .htaccess they will now figure this out?
Im thinking to play it safe to just shut off the newer page (widget.net). Unless for sure no penalties to older site, I will use .htaccess. We do get decent traffic on the newer site, but much more on the regular older site.
What do you think?
Sounds like the best way to go. You'll keep getting the .net traffic at the .com site, but it won't be duplicate content. Just make sure it's a 301 permanent, and not a 302 temporary redirect.
