Domains-mapping and duplicate content

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July 8th, 2008, 04:15 AM

hazardpro

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Domains-mapping and duplicate content

Hi all.

I have several domains that are all mapped together eg.

mydomain.com
anotherdomains.co.uk
dont-forget-this-domain.com

They are mapped so they do not re-direct to one domain, you can view the same site under each domain name.

The mapping service is via my hosting company and I aksed them to explain how it is acheived, there reply:

"we add an additional config file for the new domain on the server which points it to the same directory as your main domain. With mappings the web server treats mapped domains the same as the main hosted domain."

MY question is am I going to get penalised for duplicant content using this method?

I have check my site with copyscape and it doesnt flag up my other domains as duplicate content.

Your advice is gratefully recevied.

July 8th, 2008, 04:20 AM

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Check each domain using the "site:www.mydomain.com" operator... If all 3 come up with the same content then my guess would be that Google are seeing 3 domains with duplicate content and you will suffer the consequences!

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July 8th, 2008, 04:48 AM

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Umm As far as I think, Domain Mapping is usually a dangerous deal.. 301's are always better unless you are a $1M website...

Domain Mapping is still a kind of redirect only done from the Providers network.

If All the URL's exist, they will be crawled and duplicate issues will arise. Though you can block secondary domains using robots.txt and leave out just one major biggie which brings you loads of traffic..

Also, Dont forget to Map the domains using the htaccess with a 301 SE friendly code only

If you are a techie, just give this a read: http://networkcreators.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=492224%3ABlogPost%3A44692

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July 8th, 2008, 08:04 AM

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Hi thank for the input.

Sound like the safest bet then is just to remove the mapping, and add a 301 re-direct to all of them and point them all to my main domain?

There are about 8 in total and to be honest my SERP is pretty good pages 1,2,3, for main phrases so if they are penalizing me I should see even better results, if they are not then no harm in removing the mapping?

Sound about right?