Well, I need some help, advice, something.
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Hey all, I'm new to the SEOmoz thing but I like it so far. I think I have my site listing so messed up that it's effecting my rank.
I have 3 domains. 1.) rt112media.com 2.) route112media.com 3.) route112.net. Each domain was purchased through GoDaddy.com and still remain there. I have my own hosting account which I was registered as rt112media.com with route112media.com and route112.net listed as add on domains.
Technically, I would like for my main site to be route112media.com for everything. However when I registered the site as rt112media.com I didn't know the issues I would have as far as different domains so I registered with rt112media.com as my main domain name.
Anyways, as of now I have rt112media.com as my main domain through my cpanel hosting.I have both domains route112media.com and route112.net set for 301 wildcard redirects to rt112media.com on my hosting account and my GoDaddy account.
When I started my WMT account I didn't really know which domain to use cause I figured I could link them all to one. So, I signed up as routet12media.com. After a little while I realized it was not recieving anything because everything was being redirected to rt112media.com Anyways both addresses have been crawled and indexed so they are showing as two.
So, I requested to change the route112media.com address to rt112media.com in WMT. That was about 2 weeks ago and it is still pending request. I'm not having further problems with WMT because of the www.rt112media.com vs http://rt112media.com. I am the verified owner of both but I can not switch the www.rt112media account to show the non www. account as the main one because I have the other pending.
My site is still being crawled as 2 versions rt112media.com and route112media.com. So what is my best option? And what would be the worst cause scenario if I wanted to start completely over using route112media.com as my main domain with hosting and all.
Sorry this was so long I just wanted to explain my situation. I'm lost. Any advice would be appreciated!
http:/rt112media.com
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If you 301 redirect them to the main site, Google will recognize the change and remove any listings. Expect the process to take 30 days.
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Thanks. Wont Google still list the other domains since they have already been crawled?
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Hi Josh,
Sounds like a fine mess! If I am understanding you correctly, you presently own 3 domains. You only wish to use one domain. The below advice is based on that understanding.
The other two domains have no value in and of themselves. I am unsure why you acquired them other then to own similar domain names. For example Google.com owns Gogle.com and 301 redirects users to Google.com. It is designed to help with common typos more then anything else. If that is the case, then simply 301 redirect the other two domains to your primary domain and otherwise forget about them. You would not build a website on those domains nor crawl them.
What's left is your one primary domain which should be set up in Google WMT and crawled. Remove any other sites from Google WMT. There is not point in having them listed in Google WMT as they should not have a site, should not be indexed and therefore should not be a part of Google WMT.
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