Best SEO Method for Domain Forwarding??

Hi - I've purchased 2 domains:

example.co.uk and
example.com

I plan to develop example.co.uk into a site serving users from the UK. What would be the best way to redirect traffic from example.com to the .co.uk version?

In the future I may plan to develop the .com into a worldwide version, but for now I just wanted to bag the domain and improve its history.

Thanks

Chris

 

you want to use a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file

here's a few resources:
http://www.stepforth.com/faq/301-redirect.html
http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

don't do a META redirect - if you read anything about that, ignore and skip it

hopefully this helps.

 

Is there any harm in using my hosts cpanel to redirect two unused domains (site1.com and site2.com) to a domain that is in use (site3.com?

Also if I were to do the 301 redirect is there any harm in having the two unused domains (site1 and site2) both having this for the redirect: Redirect 301 / http://www.site3.com/

Thanks!

 

Here's a tool that will check if your redirects are seo-friendly:
http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php

And i don't see any harm in having two separate redirects to a third site. That's fine.