2 domains point to same index

is this considered spammy?

[kittimakai]

Easy question:

I have a .com & a .co.uk for the same word. I want them to point to the same site. Will I be penalised for this?

[pmkpmk]

As far as I understood, that's exactly what "duplicate content" means, especially when both sites resolve to the same IP address.

Chose one (probably the .com) as the actual site, and make a "Permanent Redirect" in your webserver from the other one to the main one. This way you should be on the safe side.

[mack]

Generaly speaking A lot of sites do this to protect their brand. It is also good for catching people who type .com instead of .co.uk or vice vercer.

What you can do it use a redirect to point everything to your prefered choice of domain. From there Google will detect the duplicate content and will only pay attention to one of your domains. The one with the most inbound links will be the main site and Google will ignore the other.

It is impotaint to ensure you do nothing to promote the other domain. Simply point it to the other domain using an htaccess perm redirect and forget about it.

Mack.

[kittimakai]

Thanks for the info :)