Adding another domain for website

[suzgodrich]

I am in the process of adding another domain and directing it to my website

I am hoping this will help in my google ranking, as I am using a very good keywords in the second domain

Is this something than can promote your site in google? sorry I am a beginner so still learning

Thanks suzanne

[tbp]

This is a difficult one, as pointing 2 domains to the same website can cause problems in Google.

There are two ways of doing it:

1) As an alias, so that the website on domain1 will also appear under domain2 and the pages also appear to be on domain2

2) 301 Redirect, so when someone types in domain2 they are redirected to domain1

The problem with option 1 is to Google it looks like you have 2 websites (one on domain1 and the other on domain2), which are both identical. As a result Google will only display one site and you don't get to choose which one. This can end up causing problems with SEO.

The second option is the best way to do it, as it tells Google that domain 1 is the one to index and is the main site.

What you're probably better off doing is setting up a separate site on domain 2, with different content so you get that indexed as well as your original content.

Alternatively you could set up a small micro site on domain 2, that redirects to domain 1 for customers to actually buy.

[suzgodrich]

Thanks for this

I am using moonfruit at the moment to host my sites and it offers you an option and site addresses to add another domain to your site.

I am assuming this is the same as option 1 you mentioned, which is not good if its going to cause me problems in google

Does anyone have experience in using moonfruit and redirecting or this the only option under moonfruit?

Thanks again suzanne