02-20-2007, 03:17 PM
Okay here's my problem...sorry it's so long and if I didn't put this in the right forum, I apologize!
I have two domain names - adriftwood .com and oldriverratdriftwood .com - both pointing to the same website and I'm worried I'm going to get penalized for duplicate content.
The oldriverratdriftwood name was our original domain registered in 2004. This is the actual name of our business. The name was registered with our old host and when we left to go with ZenCart we registered the adriftwood name until we could get the other one transferred. We also thought the shorter name would be easier to remember, type in, etc.
We've been operating under the adriftwood name for a year with the old domain also pointing to the same site. Our sad little page rank is only 1, but we do fairly well in the search engines for our main keyword (first page everywhere BUT Google where we're #35) and most of our other keywords show up on page one everywhere.
Question: Which domain name should I make the MAIN domain and how should I handle the second one? Just leave it as is with the nameservers pointing to the website, or should we do a 301 redirect for it?
What would y'all do if it was your site? :-\
I have two domain names - adriftwood .com and oldriverratdriftwood .com - both pointing to the same website and I'm worried I'm going to get penalized for duplicate content.
The oldriverratdriftwood name was our original domain registered in 2004. This is the actual name of our business. The name was registered with our old host and when we left to go with ZenCart we registered the adriftwood name until we could get the other one transferred. We also thought the shorter name would be easier to remember, type in, etc.
We've been operating under the adriftwood name for a year with the old domain also pointing to the same site. Our sad little page rank is only 1, but we do fairly well in the search engines for our main keyword (first page everywhere BUT Google where we're #35) and most of our other keywords show up on page one everywhere.
Question: Which domain name should I make the MAIN domain and how should I handle the second one? Just leave it as is with the nameservers pointing to the website, or should we do a 301 redirect for it?
What would y'all do if it was your site? :-\