Hi All I have a recruitment site and also several niche recruitment domain names. Eventually I would like to turn these into sites. But for now I would like to simply forward them to my main recruitment site. Will this effect the PR etc on the main site by forwarding other domains to it? Thanks James
Hi James I don't know the definitive answer, but I have done this with about 4 domains, all pointing to the same web space, and it DID impact my PR. I think Google sees them as duplicate sites and so ranks them lower. Traffic has maintained however, from searches.
Don't do this if you don't want your PR to drop. If google detect it,they will surely drop your PR to 0 Its not worth to try
Thanks for the replies guys. Just thinking if this is a bad idea should I stop the re-directs on the .co.uk .info .net and .biz extensions that I have or does Google know that they are all related and not mind with them? James
It depends how you do it. If you point the names to the same site, so that www.yoursite.co.uk/whatever.html and www.yoursite.biz/whatever.html are identical then you could be in trouble. What you need to do is set up a 301 permenant redirect. How you do this depends on your hosting setup, it's not generally to hard. Note this is different to a meta refresh (which you shouldn't use). With this method you choose one domain to be the key one for your site and then set the others up to forward to that so that if someone visits www.yoursite.biz/whatever.html they instantly get forwarded to www.yoursite.co.uk/whatever.html - it's all very seamless too the end user.
Can you let us see the site, the redirects should be fine if 301 header redirects, more likely if it's a service of your domain registrar they'll be meta refresh which are supposedly bad but they are so widespread and I've not seen any major penalisation as a result, although I guess opportunity cost is impossible to measure!
Right the site is em pl oyi ng now (dot) c o m I also have the .co.uk .biz .net .info This is my main site. So I need it to have everything as good as I can get it. How do you check how the domains are being forwarded? I think all but the .co.uk are at one registra. Thanks James
OK, now the .co.uk is just a frame with the .com site in the middle, probably not the end of the world but not great and as you're at it, might as well get a 301 put up to redirect all users to the .com. The others are doing a 302 redirect, this works exactly the same as a 301 but is telling browsers and spiders that the move is only temporary where as a 301 is say it's permanent. It's generally not recommended to use 302's. There is an interesting article on the different way's they are handled here - http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/when-to-use-a-301-vs-302-redirect/ There is an interesting article
I setup a redirect in my lunarpages cpanel and this is what it added into my .htaccess Is this correct for .htaccess? Thanks!