www.domain.com vs domain.com again

[staceyl]

The PageRank with one of my sites is being shared between [mysite.com...] and [mysite.com....] Both urls go to the same page, but each is pulling a PR.

I consider [mysite.com...] to be the primary address. Could this be problematic to my campaign? Is there something in particular I did to cause this to happen? Thanks for your help.

[jo1ene]

I have three domains pointing to the same site. The one with all the backlinks is the one with the PR. I consider my other domains to be business name, trademark and typo protection only. I don't care if they come up in the SERPs.

Make sure that all of your incoming links are to the domain name you wish to use and rank well. You may run into a problem if Google (or whoever) is indexing you under the domain with no links coming in.

[jtbell]

The PageRank with one of my sites is being shared between [mysite.com...] and [mysite.com....] Both urls go to the same page, but each is pulling a PR.

I consider [mysite.com...] to be the primary address.

Set up your server to return a permanent redirect (HTTP status 301) to the primary address whenever it receives a request for the other address. This will help Google consolidate all your PR credit on the primary address.

How you do this depends on which Web server software you're using, so ask your Web hosting provider about it, or do a Google search for something like "301 redirect Apache", "301 redirect IIS", etc. Or search Webmasterworld; it's been discussed here many times before.

[staceyl]

I considered the 301 redirect before. I appreciate your help. Thanks!