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I now have domain names : widgets.co.uk and bluewidgets.com
My question is: what is the best way to get these domain names to point to widgets.com and not look like duplicate sites and subsequently not get booted out of google.
(I know its a simple question - but I don't want to mess up my 9 months of hard work.)
If they are simple domain redirects, then just point them at your old site as a "move perm" header - no worries. If Google thinks they are dupes, they won't boot it, just the redirects won't rank as high. No problem.
I do think you should try to stay away from resolving the new domains as the old one. Make sure that bluewidgets.com/foo.htm is not the same as widgets.com/foo.htm. Don't resolve the domains internally. Any and all pageviews to the new domains should redirect back to the root of the old ones. If you don't, you do risk duplicate indexing. That's not necc a problem, but I'm not convinced there aren't any associated with it.
If you look back through the messages here for the last year, you'll find many similar threads and questions about "www.domain.com" vs "domain.com" vs "ip address" vs "domain.net"...etc.
Looked back deeper onto old threads (as you suggested) and found some excellent stuff.
Going for the simple domain re-direct for now, until I can write some more original content. :)
p.s. This is a Great Site! Thanks for your time!
