Domain Management 1

[coldfused]

We have a client:

red-widgets

Their domain name is:

http://www.redwidgets.com

They want to add another domain:

http://www.red-widgets.com

that mirrors their site. Reason being that all printed marketing efforts list the company name (branded in their logo) as red-widgets, not redwidgets. So they feel users coming to the site from their print ads will want to type in

http://www.red-widgets.com.

Even though the print ad clearly says

http://www.redwidgets.com.

So my question is how or what do you guys reccommend is the best way to handle the two domain names having the exact same content? Will that hurt rankings in Google? Or if I'm researching right will one of the sites succeed in the serps and the other fail because of the duplicated content?

If it's a guarantee that one will succedd then im ok with this, but if both suffer from the duplicated content then I need some advice.

Carl

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Florida Web Design
Orlando Web Hosting
Florida Coldfusion Hosting

 

[ChrisHirst]

If both domains are promoted then the SEs will only pick one to show and it is quite likely that they could show pages from one domain for one query and pages from the other for other queries. This will reduce the natural link pop as people could be linking to the different hostnames.

The best way is to 301 redirect one site to the other. This will ensure that only one site is seen.

It is very important to note that should the client decide to redirect the established hostname to they new one they will lose all their rankings due to the Google aging delay

Chris.

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[coldfused]

Thanks Chris.

redwidgets.com is the aged site so I will redirect the red-widgets site to the aged site.

Just wanted to make sure it would not cause any harm to the current site.

Thanks for your help.

Carl

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Florida Web Design
Orlando Web Hosting
Florida Coldfusion Hosting