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Yahoo and MSN spidering problems

         

Digital Worker

1:54 pm on Aug 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hi

I have a few websites that are having this problem, I have bought 3 domains for each (purely for users to find the site if it is typed in the address bar) I am using aliasing for the domains

Google has found the right domain to be spidered

Yahoo and MSN seem to choose other ones. You can see that this will be a problem for link building. Yahoo and MSN obviously choose one domain and then put a duplicate content filter on the others

I am wondering if it is a good idea to block MSN and Yahoo from indexing the wrong domains through my firewall. Is this the best way to go about it, or dangerous, or is there another way

And if so how long would it take for Yahoo and MSN to lift the duplicate content fiilter/penalisation on my main domain (the one that is indexed by google)

To get round this problem do you think it would be good to put a splash page on all the domains that i dont want to promote and if this doesnt work then rip the domains down alltogether

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers

Digital Worker

Digital Worker

11:12 am on Aug 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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no one feel like answering this?

goodroi

1:30 pm on Aug 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Place a 301 redirect on the domains you want to point ot the real domain and don't publish content on the duplicate domains.

Digital Worker

9:00 am on Aug 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I have done this and it hasnt worked becuase yahoo does not follow 301 redirects