I am a little shy in experience in dynamic techniques and am interested in some advice about what is going on here - Our company PROCAPSLABS.com owns several domains and although the home pages are 302 redirects - These domains are set up in .net in such a way that when you hit the home page it re-directs to out main page but when you hit an interior page it stays on the alternate domain with the same content. For example our main domain is www.procapslabs.com an alternate domain is www.andrewlessman.com if you go to andrewlessman.com it redirects to the main site but is you go to one of the interior pages it the URL does not redirect http://www.andrewlessman.com/PCL/Pages/Products/Productmaster.aspx So Im sure that the SE see this as number pages of duplicate content. The devloper insist that because it is dynamic that this is an accepted practice. P I would really appreciate someone shedding some light on this. Thanks in advance!!
Well first you would probably have to ask your self a few questions.. Like, what is the desired objective.. Why were the site files originally moved from the first domain to the second domain? I am assuming that you are wanting to eventually make the new domain the main site? Is this a correct assumption? The other factor that comes to mind is which domain has more deep back links and ranks higher in the serps? Like does the old subpages have a lot of deep back links? Does it rank a lot higher in the serps as the exact same content on the new page? If there are not a great deal of back links to the old sub pages than maybe (notice I say maybe) it would be better in the long run to remove those old sub pages completely and get them establised on the new domain.. It might set the traffic back at first but better in the long run if the new domain name is the one that is desired for that site.. And, of course leave the main existing redirect up on the old domains main directory.. That way eventually those old links will fall off or way down in any placement. Boulder
Ugh, it's asp.net huh? If it's in php and apache system you could do 301 mod-redirect easily with several rules. Try to ask your programmer the similar system. Well, I'm not familiar with asp.net, so good luck.