I made a blog post to help myself and a client understand the potential problems he has with his website - > Duplicate Content Is my understanding correct?
Another question about this unusual setup, is that the mainpage's actually in a different directory so there are two 301 redirects: name.net --> name.com --> name.com/directory/page.do Is this ideal?
Basically, this person has 2 domain names pointing to the same website using domain parking. As a result, his pages in the search results are split between the 2 domain names, e.g. the search results show: - www.name.com/page1.html - www.name.com/page3.html - www.name.com/page4.html - www.name.net/page2.html - www.name.net/page5.html The mainpage is also in a directory, e.g. www.name.com/directory/index.html What I did was to recommend 301 redirects: name.net --> name.com --> name.com/directory/index.html Is this the most ideal setup from an SEO perspective?
Thats totally fine, but I would consider turning one of the domains into an alias with the host just for the sake of branding the main site better and move away from the parked domain pages. May be too late to change this, but why is the index in a directory? Anyways, you might want to consider doing a mod_rewrite (if apache hosting and the modules enabled) just so your index page appears top level for the sake of user usability and if theres any weird spidering issues.
I think you got it right in your blog post......although I think Google has gotten better at detecting and properly dealing with cannonical urls