Two spelling of a domain

[freestone]

I have a customer with two spellings of their domain name.

I set up an account for spelling A and forwarded all the email boxes to spelling B becuase people tend to remember spelling A more of the time.  Spelling B is the real web site.

I also want any www. traffic for spelling A to go to spelling B so I used this .htaccess file in the root of spelling A

Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.B.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I use to just forward A to B from the registrar but made this change to allow for email spelled either way.

My question is does this create a duplicate site issue for the bots?  Is this in anyway an SEO negative and if so is there a better way to do this.

Thanks

jw

[freestone]

I could turn it off each night and turn it on in the am...LOL ...or better yet redirect it to google.com each night and redirect to the real site in the am.

The 301 works fine no matter the page.  Chances are most people would only type www.a.com and all the backlinks are to www.b.com (the real site)...

The actually site is at the incorrect spelling....but it is a common misspelling.

Thanks for the help.... I did not want to get goowacked for a simple thing.  That is a good new verb ...goowacked.  If you run out and regiester the term ....send me my royalties.

Cheers

[Thos003]

As long as your redirect is working then it doesn't create a problem for the bots. They can read the 301 redirect.

.....Now if you want to confuse the bots a bit then use a 302. And then turn the site on and off at leisure. Kidding...