Canonical URL redirect to different domain - SEO benefits?
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Hello Folks,
We are having a SEO situation here, and hope your support will help us figure out that.
Let's say there are two different domains www.subdomian.domianA.com and www.domainB.com.
- subdomain.domainA is what we want to promote and drive SEO traffic.
- But all our content lies in domainB.
So one of the thoughts we had is to duplicate the domainB's content on subdomian.domainA and have a canonical URL redirect implemented.
Questions:
- Will subdomain.domainA.com get indexed in search engines for the content in domainB by canonical redirect? Do we get the SEO benefits?
- So is there any other better way to attain this objective?
Thanks in advance.
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It was only recent that Google ancouced that they now allow it.
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I've never heard of canonical being used to point at another domain. Alan's advice is the same as mine- "duplicate" the content on subdomain.domain.A.com and 301 redirect the URLs. Alan also makes a good suggestion in implementing your 301 redirects globally rather than page by page.
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Canonical tag is the poor mans 301 redirect, point domainB at A then do a 301 redirect.
if you have the content in the same fodler stucture this is quite easy.
I have some tutorial to do so on a windows servers.
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