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Old 11-30-2005, 09:11 PM
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Question multiple domains pointing to forum

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?

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Sebastian
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Old 12-01-2005, 10:54 AM
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

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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.
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Old 12-17-2005, 06:04 AM
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

How do you do that? I would need to get my domains rewritten too.
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Old 12-17-2005, 07:34 AM
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

I think, vbseo is doing that automatically!?
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Old 12-17-2005, 07:36 AM
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

Well google is showing my site with 3 different adresses so...
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Old 12-17-2005, 07:42 AM
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

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.
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

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I think, vbseo is doing that automatically!?
I dont believe vBSEO has the ability to do such a thing.
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Old 12-17-2005, 08:11 AM
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

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)
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

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.

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Old 12-17-2005, 08:26 AM
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

Could you tell me exactly how to do that?
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

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)
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Re: multiple domains pointing to forum

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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?
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