2 domains -- one site

Best practices for dealing with multiple domains pointing to the same site

[crazed canuck]

Hello,

I have been asked to make a recommendation to the administrators of a fairly large informational travel website. The site presently receives a fair amount of traffic and has a Google page rank of 6. Presently there is an older domain (which gets more traffic from the search engines presently) and a newer domain where the group now puts their marketing dollars behind.

What I would like to know is -- What are the best practices when having multiple domain names pointed to the same website? Is this considered spamming the search engines as the same content is presented using different domain names?

Any comments or sharing of experience with this issue would be most appreciated!

[Gus_R]

Hi, you could be penalized for "duplicated content".
I know one domain must show a redirect message at index page to another domain for this cases.
The objetive is not feed spiders with the same page under diferent names.

[dragonlady7]

I don't understand, are there two websites or just two names for the same website?
Two names for the same website is fine, as long as they both point to the same IP address.
If they have separate content, then that's a problem if the content is too similar, and they should be combined and one of the names made into a redirect to the other. Failure to do so could result in a duplicate content penalty.

But if there's just one website with two addresses, that's fine if they're actually combined and one address simply redirects to the other.