My parked domain wants to refback my real domain?

Hi we all now that duplicate entries make SEO poor for a website, however i have myrealdomain.com and i have a parkeddomain also.

Both domains are ranked on google however they show the very same pages.. sometimes isnt this bad for SEO where there are duplicate entries via two different domains one of which is parked ontop of the real domain?

Also I raise this because i received an email saything there was a new link back? So i looked and here is what i found:

Posted By http://www.myparkeddomain.com/forum/index.php

For http://www.myrealdomain.net/forum/education-university-college-school/22370-enter-if-you-have-finished-uni-already.html

Type Refback

Date 2008-10-08 14:55:53

Title My website

Message:  enter if you have finished uni already

Now i dont know why my parked domain wants to refback to my real domain :S

Why does this happen?

You don't have the domain parked correctly (or maybe you do its different on all hosting). But you'll need to redirect all traffic from myparkeddomain.com to myrealdomain.com

For example: I have seotips1.com as a parked domain, whenever you type that in, you're taken to seotips4.com (hopefully )

You'll need to add a few lines to your .htaccess to achieve this, I'm looking for them now to share with you

Originally Posted by FightRice

You don't have the domain parked correctly (or maybe you do its different on all hosting). But you'll need to redirect all traffic from myparkeddomain.com to myrealdomain.com

For example: I have seotips1.com as a parked domain, whenever you type that in, you're taken to seotips4.com (hopefully )

I see I see.... that does make sense..

But i would like my parked domain to be ranked also... if i just redirect i doubt my parked domain will be ranked then... or will it?

No but for your parked domain to be ranked, you'll need to add content to it. If you're presenting the same content on two different sites, Google will pick which one is authorative and it might not be the one you want, and it wont rank the other one.

Originally Posted by FightRice

No but for your parked domain to be ranked, you'll need to add content to it. If you're presenting the same content on two different sites, Google will pick which one is authorative and it might not be the one you want, and it wont rank the other one.

Thats what i feared...

Ok i think i will need some real professional advice. Maybe a vbseo staff will be able to help me also?

I have my main domain which is over 4 years old and the other domain is a parked domain which is around 2 years old. The main domain that is over 4 years old has pages ranked in google, and the parked domain has very few.

Now here is the scenario. My main domain points to the website and /forum however my parked domain is more relevant for the forum only as the name of the domain is xxxxxxxforum.co.uk im thinking i keep my main domain for the website only and apply the xxxxxxxforum.co.uk domain to the forum only? This way my main domain will be leading to the front page and the other domain to the forum and i can place links to one another on their pages?

However here is my concern, if i take my main domain off of the forum and apply the new domain for the forum dont you think it will have quite a bad impact on google as it wont be able to resolve threads which will be www.mymaindomain.com/forum/xxxx ? Even if i did a redirect how long do you think it will take google to correct and update a 4 year old domain?

What other options do i have? As both domains are very relevant to my website and would like my parked domain ranked for the same website...?

at the end of the day, you just have to pick one

Originally Posted by Kayz

Thats what i feared...

Ok i think i will need some real professional advice. Maybe a vbseo staff will be able to help me also?

I have my main domain which is over 4 years old and the other domain is a parked domain which is around 2 years old. The main domain that is over 4 years old has pages ranked in google, and the parked domain has very few.

Now here is the scenario. My main domain points to the website and /forum however my parked domain is more relevant for the forum only as the name of the domain is xxxxxxxforum.co.uk im thinking i keep my main domain for the website only and apply the xxxxxxxforum.co.uk domain to the forum only? This way my main domain will be leading to the front page and the other domain to the forum and i can place links to one another on their pages?

However here is my concern, if i take my main domain off of the forum and apply the new domain for the forum dont you think it will have quite a bad impact on google as it wont be able to resolve threads which will be www.mymaindomain.com/forum/xxxx ? Even if i did a redirect how long do you think it will take google to correct and update a 4 year old domain?

What other options do i have? As both domains are very relevant to my website and would like my parked domain ranked for the same website...?

Its honestly to the point now where its arguable if Google is still considering domain name as a major ranking factor once your site is established. Like brian said you just have to pick one (I'd go with whatever google has indexed and is more established) and roll with it.

Originally Posted by briansol

at the end of the day, you just have to pick one

Originally Posted by FightRice

Its honestly to the point now where its arguable if Google is still considering domain name as a major ranking factor once your site is established. Like brian said you just have to pick one (I'd go with whatever google has indexed and is more established) and roll with it.

Yaikes.....! Hmmmm i will think about this... but in the mean time how can i redirect my parked domain? Does it need to stay parked and all i do is htaccess redirect it?

Cheers

keep it parked, and use the htaccess rule, if not the real domain, make it the real domain.

right after rewrite engine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://realdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]


or, if you use w's


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Originally Posted by briansol

keep it parked, and use the htaccess rule, if not the real domain, make it the real domain.

right after rewrite engine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://realdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]


or, if you use w's


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

So if somebody visited www.myparkeddomain.co.uk/forum/xxxx it will redirect them to www.myrealdomain.com/forum/xxxx or will just be a redirect to www.myrealdomain.com ?

Also am i im suppose to do what you have shown above within the real domain ftp? How does this help the parked domain.. isnt it suppose to be something like

Redirect 301 www.myparkedomain.co.uk http://www.myrealdomain.com?

Cheers

parked domains don't have ftp sites...

since the parked domain SITS on the real domain.... when the code base runs, it sees that it is not realdomain, so it redirects to realdomain.


now, if you're in /forum, you need to do the above in root, and then in /forum the same thing, but adding the /forum directive to the rule, like


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]



Note: you WOULDNT have to add this rule if you didn't have an htaccess file in this folder because of the way htaccess works up. but since you have a file here with vbseo rules in it, you have to manually add these rules to it.

ie, parkeddomain.com/somenewfolder/somepage.php will direct to realdomain.com/somenewfolder/somepage.php with just the root rule, provided there's no htaccess file in somenewfolder

haha... i just noticed that the title auto-grabbed hondaswap's title from the turbofwd domain. pretty crazy

Originally Posted by briansol

parked domains don't have ftp sites...

since the parked domain SITS on the real domain.... when the code base runs, it sees that it is not realdomain, so it redirects to realdomain.



now, if you're in /forum, you need to do the above in root, and then in /forum the same thing, but adding the /forum directive to the rule, like


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]



Note: you WOULDNT have to add this rule if you didn't have an htaccess file in this folder because of the way htaccess works up. but since you have a file here with vbseo rules in it, you have to manually add these rules to it.

ie, parkeddomain.com/somenewfolder/somepage.php will direct to realdomain.com/somenewfolder/somepage.php with just the root rule, provided there's no htaccess file in somenewfolder

Sorry for sending you around the bend mate.

So if i wanted www.parkedomain.co.uk/forum/somepage.php to redirect to www.myrealdomain.com/forum/somepage.php

I would use

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]

In my root htaccess? However i have vbseo's htaccess within /forum that shouldnt affect it should it?

Also if i apply this rule will it affect any of my www.realdomain.com/mypage etc?

all you need is:

in root:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]


in /forum:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]


thats it.


If you have any other folders with htaccess files in them (vb doesn't have any...) then you should do the same thing as forums

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/some-non-vb-dir-with-specialhtaccess/$1 [L,R=301]

Originally Posted by briansol

all you need is:

in root:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]


in /forum:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]


thats it.


If you have any other folders with htaccess files in them (vb doesn't have any...) then you should do the same thing as forums

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/some-non-vb-dir-with-specialhtaccess/$1 [L,R=301]

Cheers for that, i will try this very soon, and let you know how i get along.