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I just launched a site last week, under (example) www.my-new-site.com. I also purchased www.mynewsite.com. I decided to go with indexing the hyphenated domain.
My question is, what should I do with the mynewsite.com domain? I don't want to index it or anything...just have it going to my-new-site.com in case return visitors remember the domain name but not the hyphens. Up until this point, under similar circumstances, I had just been parking the extra non-hyphenated domain through my cpanel. But I've been reading through some posts that indicate Google prefers 301 redirects (as well as some that indicate Google is having difficulties with them lately).
If I park the domain do I run the risk of splitting PR at some point? Should I just set up the domain to redirect to the hyphenated domain through my cpanel (and if so IS this even a 301 redirect? - I've never used one before). What about setting up the unhyphenated domain as a single, sovereign page that says "please click here to be redirected to my-new-site.com?
Sorry if this has already been answered somewhere else - I've been reading through a bunch of posts but it seems there could be some recent debate over the best method in this particular situation.
Thanks a million,
Spaciba
You'll want a 301, not parked. I just moved some sites to hosting with cpanel, and if I remember correctly there could be an option of permanent or temporary - but that may just be for internal files.
