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Will Parked Domain hurt My SEO as Duplicate Content?
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Hello, I have one website (Migration Lawyers) and I have an extra 8 domains Parked so they are basically cloning the content of the site.
so if the main site is: migrationlawyers.co.za and I have an addon domain migration-lawyers.com is that good or bad? is there a proper way to redirect the sites, will redirecting (301) subdomains be more effective?
Thanks for your Input
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Hey Thanks a lot, I read the google doc, and as I'm still new to SEO, I thought I'd ask here to make sure...
I have another Question...
The site was not built by me, and I suppose for SEO purpouses (back in the day) the site is externally linked to it's own content.
let me give you an example:On the ABOUT page which is www.migrationlawyerS.co.za (Main Domain with letter S)
This page links to www.migrationlawyer.co.za/link (addon domain without an S)If I 301 redirect www.migrationlawyer.co.za to www.migrationlawyerS.co.za will I have to restructure the whole linking system on my website (as I understand a 301 will redirect to the root domain only), or is there a way around that?
Thanks,
Nikita -
Oh definitely redirect those. No question. Hop to!
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Yes, Goggle will see these as duplicate content, and all your sites be effected by this. Parked domains are a big no no.
I would suggest you set up redirect for all the othe r7 domains to the main domain you want to use, Google advises this and well it makes perfect sense also.
You can actually do this from c-Panel as per your screen shot, or you could use your .htaccess to do this
Regards
John
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