Hi Folks
I'm kind of new to webmastering. Actually master is not the term I would use. Anyway here's the question. The Guru's at Googles forum say that if you have two url's pointing to the same site your going to be penlalized for duplicate content. I know that some less than reputabale webmasters try to trick the search engines that way. Lets say your home page displays for http://yoursite.com and http://yoursite.com/index.html . I'm told that this an alias url. I called Yahoo which is my hosting service and they say that's the only way the file can be served.
I did a little research and the to largest hosts are this way ,Yahoo and Godaddy. I checked both Yahoo and Google and both have home pages with a .com andindex.html url pointing to their home page. In fact half of the first page serp's have sites designed that way.
it seams like all you get from the people at Google is vague,evasive, double talk.
How can I get clear and consise directions.
Thanks MX for ever:confused:
MrCat posted this at 18:24—7th September 2007.
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You could do a 301 redirect and not get penalized.
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Dirtbiker posted this at 21:16—7th September 2007.
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I'm talking about 1 page and 2 urls. The url "/index.html" only exisits on my file manager and all requests for either ".com " or "index.html" takes you to my index .html file in my file manager. There's no way to redirect a redirect. This type of web server has only the one file and it's named "index.html". there's no such file as 'home" or".com". ETC.
Yahoo thinks the idea of being penalized for an alias url is rediculous. I'm sure Godaddy would too!
ap1106 posted this at 23:59—9th September 2007.
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that isn't really two urls pointing at the same site....
when you type the '.com' Domain, in it searches for the homepage; looks for index.html, index.htm, index.php etc etc, then looks for home.html, home.htm, home.php etc
(idn the exact order it searches for those)
as soon as it finds it, it displays that page i.e. yoursite.com/index.html
but the /index.html will not appear in the address bar
typing yoursite.com/index.html is doing the same thing as typing the domain in, just means it will not search for the homepage, it'll just go straight to that index.html file
and the /index.html will display in the address bar
They can't possibly penalize you for this as the same thing will happen to every single web site on the internet, ever.
try it for this site:
http://www.webmaster-forums.net
http://www.webmaster-forums.net/index.php
& TWF are hardly penalized by any search engine for it
what google are probably talking about there is if you have 2 Domain names, 1st one where you actual site is hosted & the 2nd one re-directing/pointing to the 1st,
hope that clears it up for ya
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robfenn posted this at 09:27—10th September 2007.
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At the moment, that's what we do. Our main domain is .co.uk and we simply re-direct the .com to the .co.uk one. How bad is this then?
Personally i don't see why this should be viewed as duplicate content, it's simply meant to make it easier for people to guess our domain!
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ap1106 posted this at 09:58—10th September 2007.
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umm well i do exactly that too lol,
i think..... its only if you submit both domains.....
i'm not 100% on the ways of google, but its not really affecting my rankings having both existing, & only .co.uk submitted
my .com just doesnt seem to show up int the results,
but then they may find the .com one day through a link somewhere idk..
anyway google themselves have lots of domains pointing to them
try
http://www.gooooogle.com
http://www.goolge.com/
so i dunno
)
(i did say 'probably'
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