multiple domains pointing to forum

[MMAFan]

Hi,

just want to start a new topic about what I asked here.

Would you recommend not to use several Domains pointing to one forum?

I'm using for example:
www.kampfkunst-board.info (Main URL!!)
www.kampfkunstforum.info
www.kampfsport-board.de

for my sites, pointing all to my forum and some others, pointing to special sub-sites around my forum.

Within the forum the other domains links to threads and posts are redirected to the main domain, configured with vbseo, sure. But for example for the kampfkunstforum.info, google (http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&c2...nG=Suche&meta=) has still a lot of pages indexed. Even more than currently with my main domain under vbseo...is there a duplicate problem? Would you suggest any changes?

Regards,

Sebastian

[plarkin]

Originally Posted by MMAFan

Hi,

just want to start a new topic about what I asked here.

Would you recommend not to use several Domains pointing to one forum?

I'm using for example:
www.kampfkunst-board.info (Main URL!!)
www.kampfkunstforum.info
www.kampfsport-board.de

for my sites, pointing all to my forum and some others, pointing to special sub-sites around my forum.

Within the forum the other domains links to threads and posts are redirected to the main domain, configured with vbseo, sure. But for example for the kampfkunstforum.info, google (http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&c2...nG=Suche&meta=) has still a lot of pages indexed. Even more than currently with my main domain under vbseo...is there a duplicate problem? Would you suggest any changes?

Regards,

Sebastian

If you have multiple domains all pointing to the same site, and those domains are not rewritten, you'll end up getting penalized SOMEWHERE for duplicate content. I have multiple domains pointing to my site, but they all get rewritten with my primary URL.

[Nikke86]

How do you do that? I would need to get my domains rewritten too.

[MMAFan]

I think, vbseo is doing that automatically!?

[Nikke86]

Well google is showing my site with 3 different adresses so...

[MMAFan]

Are the 3 different adresses indexed with vbseo rewritten URLs? That should not happen?

I have also still some other URLs indexed at google, but only the standard vb php urls, not the rewritten ones. And they seem to decline, so I think, they will disappear completely soon.

[Michael]

Originally Posted by MMAFan

I think, vbseo is doing that automatically!?

I dont believe vBSEO has the ability to do such a thing.

[MMAFan]

visit my site via www.kampfsport-board.de (a second url), go into the forum or a thread and then you'll see that the url is changed to www.kampfkunst-board.info (my primary url)

[porschinho]

put a redirect in your .htaccess to move all to your main url. do not forget the [R=301]

otherwise you will get a DC penatly. it is against the vbulletin tos too. they do not allow to use one license under multiple domains.

[Nikke86]

Could you tell me exactly how to do that?

[porschinho]

put a file named .htaccess to the root directory of each domain.

content of the .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fromdomain\.tld$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://todomain.tld/$1 [L,R=301]


this will redirect all pages to the new domain. (mod_rewrite musst be installed on your webhost)

[MMAFan]

Originally Posted by porschinho

put a file named .htaccess to the root directory of each domain.

content of the .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fromdomain\.tld$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://todomain.tld/$1 [L,R=301]


this will redirect all pages to the new domain. (mod_rewrite musst be installed on your webhost)

aehm, isn't that exactly what I wrote before, that vbSEO is doing, itself?