Duplicate URL and duplicate site dilema, www. or not?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by oimachi, Aug 26, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi there,

    In the past I have changed hosts many times because of problems, as we all know all hosting companies are not perfect!

    This is my problem:

    A.
    http://xuzo.com
    Hosted on siteground.com
    Indexed by Google with a PR5

    B.
    http://www.xuzo.com
    Hosted on hostgator.com
    Indexed by Google with a PR6

    2 sites that look the same and are or might be, I know that Hostgator redirected http://xuzo.com to http://www.xuzo.com

    What should I do?

    If I set it up so that http://xuzo.com had completely different content than http://www.xuzo.com, would they be seen as 2 different websites, 2 different URL's?

    http://www.xuzo.com is the original version, should I delete http://xuzo.com completely?

    I don't really feel like throwing away a PR5 property..

    Cheers!
     
    oimachi, Aug 26, 2006 IP
  2. Cryogenius

    Cryogenius Peon

    Messages:
    1,280
    Likes Received:
    118
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #2
    If you redirect site A to site B, then you might be able to combine the PageRank from both sites into a single (higher) PageRank for site B.

    No promises though...

    Cryo.
     
    Cryogenius, Aug 27, 2006 IP
  3. tyggemannen

    tyggemannen Guest

    Messages:
    842
    Likes Received:
    14
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #3
    Use .htaccess to redirect 301 and you will be fine.
     
    tyggemannen, Aug 31, 2006 IP