Questions that are specifically about Multiple Domains
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Pros and Cons of Buying Common Website Mispellings
I own a website that is nicely short but somewhat easy to misspell. I would like to buy the three or four most common mispellings and redirect them all to my main page. Are there any major problems ...
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SEO Implications of creating Niche Product Blogs vs Main Company Blog with Categories.
Our company has a dilemma that I am hoping the users of Pro WebMasters can help us with.
Right now as it stands we create a seperate website for each product that we sell.
We also have our corporate ...
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Cross promoting sites you own
With time the amount of sites I have under my wing has grown and diversified such that visitors to site A wouldn't care one bit about site B that I control. (There are 7 different sites in my example ...
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Multiple sites redirected to one main site
I have a client who insists of having multiple website domains all being redirected to one main website domain. It is getting out of hand and his server has become conveluted and riddled with garbage ...
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Consolidating google results for 2 domains with the same content
I have 2 domains http://foo.com and a http://bar.com. http://bar.com is just a domain alias for http://foo.com so they have the same content. Results for both domains show up on google, I'd rather all ...
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Can merging 4 sites into 1 help?
The company I work for has 4 websites. There is a related theme to them (all IT services or web design / development). All have unique content.
I am hearing more and more that these need to be ...
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Can a sitemap index file reference sitemap files under different domains?
My company owns several domain names. We also host websites for our users at their custom domains.
Our domains:
company.com
product1.com
product2.com
Users's domains:
user1.com
user2.com
...
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2answers
129 views
Is there an elegant way to track multiple domains under separate accounts with google analytics?
I have a situation where a content management system uses the same template for multiple websites with different domain names and I can't make a separate template for each. However, each website needs ...
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2answers
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Shop owner wants multiple domains, what do I to tell him?
My client owns a webshop exampleshop.it - and we use adwords and google analytics to promote it.
He somehow has the idea that more domains (pointing to the original webshop) bring more traffic and ...
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2answers
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Block Google (and other) from indexing a domain
We want to open a new domain for certain purposes (call them PR). The thing is we want the domain to point to the same website we currently have.
We do not want this new domain to appear on search ...
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Site indexed on temporary domain before site went live
I made a careless mistake with one of my sites. While developing it I put it on some temporary domain of mine and thought I would remove it after couple of days. That is why I did not included any ...
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4answers
537 views
Best way to track multiple sites with Google Analytics
I currently have 63 websites (and counting) that I'm tracking on one Google Analytics account, and I'm starting to realize... this is becoming a bit cumbersome.
What's the best way to collect traffic ...
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Consolidate search results from site that gets accessed from multiple domains
I have a site hosted on Windows Azure, and I have a domain pointing to the site, so I can access the site using both mysite.cloudapp.net as well as mysite.com.
Now for some reason Google indexed ...
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1answer
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Best Strategy for Exact Match Domain (EMD) Along Side Branded Domain
I lucked out and managed to buy a two word .com EMD for the most important key-phrase for our b2b SaaS startup.
Shutting down our branded domain isn't an option, we've already got too much invested ...
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3answers
194 views
How do I adjust our “default” domain
Our company owns a selection of top level domain names. Each of these domain names points to the same IP.
We currently market our domain as existingfoo.com. All our incoming links are to that domain, ...
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1answer
367 views
Domain Masking / Cloaking?
I don't know whats the correct term for it, but what I'd like is to forward users visiting domain1.com to domain2.com without changing the URL in their address bar at all, IE. show contents from ...
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Multiple domains and product categories but one company?
My company is expanding online, and we are wondering the best way to go about our eCommerce strategy. We sell a wide range of products of a single material, lets use ceramics as an example. The ...
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Authentication system brainstorm [closed]
We got multiple small websites (microsites) and one main high traffic one with big users base. Right now the requirement is to build authentication system which should allow users to loign with the ...
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2answers
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What is best for SEO: 2 domain names or 2 sites under same domain?
I have a site www.product.com and another site www.productblogg.com. The content is different on the 2 sites but they "talk" about the same product. and... the www.productblogg.com use a ...
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3answers
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What's the advantage in purchasing new hosting purely for 301 redirections
As a follow on from How do I adjust our "default" domain I am about to setup 301 redirections from a selection of TLD to our recently selected default domain.
Currently ALL of our TLDs ...
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1answer
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Adding a second domain to a website
I want to direct an easy to remember domain url to my website that has nothing to do with the brand or the original domain. What is the proper way to add a second domain to a website without opening ...
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2answers
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301 redirects, site files
Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files?
I have a site currently at a .ca domain.
Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine ...
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Cheap Bulk Domain Registration
I have 6-7 domain names that I have thought of and I'm planning to buy it in bulk so that I can save. Or am I wrong on this?
In my case, since its my first time to this hosting/domain registration, ...
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2answers
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Configuring my domains for best search engine results
Couldn't think of a more decent question title, sorry.
Basically, I have 3 domain names:
mydomain.com
mydomain.net
mydomain.co.uk
The website is actually hosted at the .co.uk address, using ...
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1answer
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Cleaning up the mess with SEO and conversions in mind
I'm having some kind of a unique situation here, but at the same time it's the typical mess web-beginners create.
I took over a project for an event-company and at the moment they're having several ...
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Can I do a non-hostile cross-domain POST now?
One requirement for a site I'm working on calls for visitors to be able to sign up for an email list. Rather than add server-side handling for this otherwise static site, I would like to POST from the ...
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Apache2: Deny access for mail.mydomain.com but allow www.mydomain.com, both points same ip
i have a linux mail+http server located throguh Internet at www.mydomain.com. Domain was bought at GoDaddy so after configuring the server and getting the public ip address i went at GoDaddy's profile ...
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Which domain better for language version?
My company is based in Russia and it's website is mycompany.ru.
Now, we are planning to launch German language version and we have option for two domains:
mycompany.de
germankeyword.ru
Which one ...
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1answer
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Directing Multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD with a country specific subdirectory?
We have multiple ccTLDomains and are thinking about how to best combine these into one. We want to do this to focus our link building efforts.
We are running a website through which we offer a ...
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1answer
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Best practice when translating sites into multiple languages - new domains?
It's not easy to made up your mind on this kind of things.
For the same website I've got 3 domains: .fr .com .co.uk. To start with it was to avoid peeps to buy the same name.
I used have my content ...
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2answers
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Getting a second domain to help direct traffic to my main domain?
The business I work has a fairly long, 4 word name. The domain they've been using is the first letter of the first three words, and then the last word spelled out. For now we'll refer to it as "The ...
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pointing a parked subdomain to a real subdomain
I have two registered domains. Say the domains are:
originaldomain.com , and parkeddomain.com
parkeddomain.com points to originaldomain.com
I also have a few subdomains in originaldomain.com, and I ...
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3answers
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One domain and multiple website in folders
I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. example.com then going to manage my websites in folders. Look below for example:
www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
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.com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog.
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Wordpress Multisite and Google Analytics in subfolders with mapped domains
I have a wordpress multisite with sub folders. The site's subfolders are mapped to domains, which are set to primary.
I'm using the 'Google Analytics Multisite Async' code to track things.
From ...
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How to point one sub-domain to another sub-domain and they can be used interchangeably
I'm trying to do this
secure.domain2.com -loads content from- secure.domain1.com
So if somebody goes to secure.domain2.com it will load the content of secure.domain1.com
Note that I don't want a ...
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PageRank sharing between domains?
I own three domains, say.. example.com, example.in, example.co.in
I have bought the .in and .co.in TLDs (Top Level Domains) only to protect the brand.
But I have this question:
If I make the other ...
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Why Is Another Domain Resolving To My IP Address?
I'm not really sure if this is something that I should worry about... I'm currently renting a dedicated server which is hosting a website I've created. The domain of the website was registered with ...
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Is it a good idea to register multiple domains pointing to a single website
We have a main domain or primary domain (say xyz.com) on which we have our website hosted. For the sake of business/trademark we would like to book other domain with the same name but different tlds ...
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What is the best way to use multiple similar domains for a single business with SEO aspects? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Will having multiple domains improve my seo?
Scenario: There are around 15 freshly registered domains. All the domains are intended to support a single business ...
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SEO optimization multiple region site, domains and multilingual site
I am taking SEO of our website to another level. I read a lot about it and study all aspects of how to properly handle multiple domains and languages. For now we use three domain names www.myurl.eu, ...
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Hosting multiple client website on single hosting account
I'm WebDesigner and I have currently only a few clients for making website.
I've unlimited hosting account and I want to host their websites in my account without reseller account (actually it is not ...
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Using both .co.uk and .com domain
We presently have a .co.uk domain that has been live now for around 9-10 months, recently the .com version of this domain has become available and we've purchased based on reading that suggests you ...
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One Main Offsite Blog vs. Multiple Onsite Blogs
I work as the in-house SEO for an office refurbishment company. We are developing two sites:
Site 1: office refurbishment
Site 2: office furniture.
Here in lies my dilemma.
For SEO purposes, ...
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htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains
I have the following which redirects mydomain1.co.uk and mydomain1.com to www.mydomain1.com perfectly.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.mydomain1\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ...
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When moving to a new domain should I ensure the old domain returns 410?
I recently moved from a .com domain to a .co.uk, this was a few months ago now, and essentially I still have my .com pointing to the same server as the .co.uk, and if accessed it performs a redirect ...
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Compare domain names effectiveness
I have a business, it's not purely online, but its presence is mainly online.
I have purchased different domain names which I liked. Is there any service that allows you to compare their ...
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Redirecting 2 or more domains to same hosting server
I have domains A.com, A.co.in and A.in Purchased from site X.
I have a hosting space/account purchased from site Y, which has provided me with 2 DNS entries that is to be replaced in the account at ...
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Domain Aliases and SEO
We have created a movie site & to optimize in search engines for other countries, we have created a alias of various domains, for example movie.co.uk, movie.de etc. How to get this optimized and ...
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Set Up Google Analytics to Track Domain Alias
I found this article from Google http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55523
However I'm not sure what happens to the data.
Will I be able to determine which domain ...
