Best Way To Link Two Url's To The Same Site?

Discussion in 'Google' started by oxford-university, Jan 25, 2010.

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  1. #1
    Hi All

    First post to this forum, I have quite an important question to ask.

    My cousin has two websites, http://jefferyandwilkes.co.uk/ and http://ecoloftsltd.co.uk/. (I need to renew the hosting for http://jefferyandwilkes.co.uk/).

    My cousin would like http://ecoloftsltd.co.uk/ to point to the content of http://jefferyandwilkes.co.uk/? In terms of googles view of websites, is my best plan to simply redirect from http://ecoloftsltd.co.uk/ to http://jefferyandwilkes.co.uk/? Would google look down on this for any reason?

    Thanks in advance for any response
     
    oxford-university, Jan 25, 2010 IP
  2. djstreet

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    Ensure you redirect the web site using a 301 redirect preferably at the server level.
     
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  3. longcall911

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    I agree with djstreet, a 301 redirect is best. This tells all crawlers that the site has permanently moved. I have not looked at the sites, but if possible, 301 each page in the first site to the equivalent page in the other. If that is not possible, do a custom 404 page on the first site that 301s to the second site. The effect will be that anyone with a bookmark to a page on the first site that no longer exists, will be transferred to the 404 page which in turn automatically directs to the second site.

    /*tom*/
     
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    Great advice Longcall!
     
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    Can you please explain the statement which I mark it as bold.
     
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    I used this HTML code in <head> area:

    <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html">
    Code (markup):
     
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  7. oxford-university

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    Thanks very much for the responses all, that has really helped.

    Sorry with the different time zones, I was in bed when everyone was replying last night.

    I appreciate the help with this, I will apply a 301 redirect.

    Thanks to all who helped, if you read this first thing in the morning where you are I hope that you have a good day

    Thanks
     
    oxford-university, Jan 26, 2010 IP