Question about duplicate content

Hey all .

Currently my weblog is running via a subdomain (link in my signature). Now I want to get a real top level domain. I want the TLD to be the main domain, not the subdomain. Now, if I have those two domains, will Google (and other SEs) consider this as multiple content?

Another thing: I want to enable static deeplinks to my posts (so it looks like domain.de/item/id/20/ instead of index.php?id=20), but will still have the dynamic URLs have enabled, too. I also have some posts, relatively linking to other posts via the dynamic urls.
So, both, static and dynamic URLs would still work and would still output html to googlebot.

Combining both problems mentioned above, will I be penalized? If yes, what can I do to avoid it?


//edit: By the way: Yes, I read the other post which is just in this subforum, too... But still, I have that other issue, so I rather started a new thread, instead of hijacking (haha ) the other one.

 

Having bot static and dynamic urls will result in dup content unless you remove one by means of the robots.txt or 301 one to the other.

About the move, why would you want to keep the old one? Just get rid of it or 301 it to the new location!

 

Ah, okay, thanks, the robots.txt is a good idea .

Well, the thing is, the subdomain is the domain on the server, where my stuff is on. Yet, I don't know of any other possibility, to access my stuff online, would have to speak with my friend, if I could drop, or 301 the domain to somewhere else...

Thanks so far

 

Okay, another question:

The static URLs will be created via .htaccess (mod rewrite). Will that still count as double content, or does Googlebot recognize this, and knows, that ?id=50 is the same like /item/50/ ?

 

Once you mod rewrite it there is only 1 url. The 'old' one gets rewritten and will never be visible. You can combine it with the 301 and G will still know of only 1 url.

 

And note that the .htaccess rewrite rules are done on apaches side, and not the client side (in this case, Google Bot)

With many/all sites, you cant even see the contents of their .htaccess, so there really isnt any way for Google to know whats in there.


Josh

 

Umh, sure? I already tested in on my testblog, and there both URLs worked. The dynamic AND the static ones...?!

By the way, if it might help, this is the code from the htaccess:

<Files item>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
<Files section>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
<Files trackback>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

Code (markup):

So, whenever the static URLs are called, - regarding to their destination (item, section and trackback) - they will be processed by the respective file.