Parked Domain Using vBSEO

I've just released:

HTML Code:

www.relevantbuzz.com

And would like to park domain:

HTML Code:

www.relevantbuzz.net

I've read several threads, including i have 2 domains, and they gave me a better idea but I'm still not sure how to go about it. Basically, I want people who enter domain .net to have the .net in the URL (address bar) as they navigate site pages; but if they enter domain .com they'll have .com showing in the URL.

For the .net domain I have in .htaccess:

Code:

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

For seo purposes, you DONT want .net/page/ to be the same thing as .com/page/. You will have duplicate content penalties.

Moreover, this can't be done easily, as both vbulletin and vbseo use 1 domain as the base to write all links from.


I own nearly all tld's for my .com, and I set up separate websites with a simple htacess file in each one that 301's to the .com

Thanks for replying, briansol.

For SEO purposes yes but my reasoning is a little different. I have an existing site that's been up for over 7 years and I've just released new site a few days ago. Since it's difficult to have shared logins with vB and across different domains I thought the best way to go about it is to move house. Because I'm starting from scratch the members from the 7 year old site will have to create new accounts to the new domain. The forums I want pointing to .net are hidden from Forumhome (setup similar to vB.org's Mod forums) and will be the new home of the 7 year old site. The original 7 year old site will remain at its domain and will be archived.

I noticed that with vBSEO it's not as simple to just park a domain and have the URL reflect that domain.

Understood, but I don't see what the negative will be to have everything all on one tld.

even if you get vbseo to direct properly with mods over my head, you're going to have cookie and login session issues (as they are single domain only by design)

True. I've been thinking about it for months now on the best approach to integrate the two sites. The problem is with the genres, one is a clan site and the other a community forum. The clan site is the older and established one but I have vBSEO on the community forum.

My intent for the clan site was to clean house and start fresh. Since the community forum is new I was teasing the idea to network the two. While it's more work involved I may simply keep both sites separate.

It might be a good idea to use the usergroups option.

Make "CLAN MEMBER" a public group, and with user permissions, only show the clan forums to those in that group.

Yeah...I've been doing that as a temporary solution. I'm not sure if the members or potential members will care for the idea that the clan's board is hosted on another domain...Especially when the community site has nothing to do with the clan.

Right now I've been cleaning out the clan site (e.g., removed most mods including templates and php files, only vB Default Style enabled). I may consider pruning most of the forums and registries that have not been used or has not been used for a while.

To network I'll just add a link to both sites pointing at one another. It's too bad that there's no easy option to share a common DB.