Websites sharing the same contents/root

I have two domains with the same name but different suffixes. One being .com and the other .co.uk, both domains will have the same contents but with the .co.uk being the primary (My audience will mostly be from the UK and my link building efforts will go mostly here as well). My main concern is I don't know which method of presenting .com is best for Google, either have .com redirect to .co.uk, have both sites sharing the same /root or each site having a separate /root. Any advise will be greatly appreciated because this one has me thinking!

No one has any recommendations into what I should do? Any views and opinions would be nice...

You definately need to redirect one of them using the proper method which is a permanent 310 redirect. If your main crowd is UK, then I would suggest redirecting the .com to the .uk

One thing to remember here is that you should still get links to the .com as well, as a 301 redirect passes link love across to the real site. This gives you the unique ability to get links from the same places, but to 2 domains, and still have both links count towards rankings.

Thanks for your reply Will. Can you clarify if you meant a 310 redirect or a 301 redirect as you mentioned in your next paragraph that a 301 redirect passes link power.



This technique sounds pretty powerful if both links count towards the same site? If this is true then should not all good SEO do it - purchase 2 or more domains and setup a redirect to feed all links to only 1 main site.

Methinks it was a typo ;)


Not really... It's only an advantage if you can get one site to link to both your domains... (which are - in fact - one site, so it's pretty unusual)!

for me, if you really want all of your site operates may be do a lot of contents that will not hurt the other one...

make sure it will different in each other ofr not duplicating contents....

heehee... your post about duplicating was duplicated.