URL Forwarding & "302 Found" & Google

[canuck]

I have a couple hundred domains that use Registrars' URL-Forwarding to point to one of my websites (generic domains for traffic). I've noticed that the Header gives a "302 Found" for all these URL-Forwarded domains. And the website these domains have been forwarded to has all but disappeared post-Florida.

I know there is no conclusive explanation for the disappearances post-Florida, however, I am just trying to work through one aspect that I feel may be negatively affecting this website.

In fact I just noticed yesterday that one of these domains pointing to our homepage also shows the exact same back-links as well as a duplicate copy of the homepage... simply via the URL-Forwarding we use. (Other forwarded domains show duplicate copies of other webpages within the website.)

To try to remove any Duplicate Content penalty that we may be suffering I am thinking of forwarding the domains to a noindex section of our website via robots exclusion protocol.

Anyone have any experience with this URL-Forwarding mess and how best to handle it?

- Thanks

<Not sure how Google has found all these domains since none of them have links pointing to them according to ATW... it seems Google, in its quest for the largest database, is mining WHOis for domains to crawl...>

[korkus2000]

This has been a common problem for over a year with Google. The 302 is making Google think they are seperate domians. You are tripping a duplicate filter and killing your site. The domains need to be a 301. You could always point to a page that is a 301. You can make a 301 header in a server-side language.