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I am a little confused! I use vidahost  whom I have to say I find very helpful. I currently have the domains www.fentonit.co.uk and www.fentonit.com, now the websites was set up using the www.fentonit.com and I have www.fentonit.co.uk as a parked domain pointed to the www.fentonit.com.

Confused yet?

Now because I wanted the website to show www.fentonit.co.uk I added some code I was given by the guys to the .hta access file and viola up it comes as the .co.uk which is what I wanted.

So if your still here and havent A: Killed yourself yet or B: Went to the Pub

Then my questions are:

1. Is there going to be an issue from an SEO point of view having my site set up this way and if so how do I resolve it?

2. Would I be better using the root domain fentonit.co.uk (I think this is the root domain, although it iscurrently parked and pointed) as opposed to the sub www domain?.......and finally.......?

3. If it is set up as I stated what exactly would be my root domain, would it be the .co.uk or the .com?

Sorry and I completely understand if your not interested in answering it but if you do.....Thanks in advance and I'll take you to the pub...lol

Craig

www.fentonit.co.uk ( i think)

Hi Stephen,

If I were you I would run the page through SEOmoz On Page Optimization Tool, I used this and transformed my page from an F to an A in about 20 mins. That said and judging by what you are saying, It doesnt appear to be key to your campaign that the homepage is the most visible from an SEO poiint of view.

However running through ther optimzation Tool you will find that you dont need to be stuffing your page with thousands of keyword's in order for it to look appealing to search engines, a couple of key phrases subtley faded into the design of the document will suffice, if your using images be sure to use any desired keyword in the Alt atributes, you also have as you said, your title, H1 and there is your Meta Descrip. Possibly use bold for your H1 but reduce the opacity considerably so as help merge with your page design and not be obtrusive but also gives your page some SEO Kudos so to speak.

Dont use the Meta Keywords Tag, possibly also add the prime keyword in your URL for that page but try and keep it short and relevent and the same as your H1, if it is more than one word then separate it with hyphens.

There is quite a lot you can achieve with minimal content on this page as long as you ensure that everything else you do is done correctly, I am redesigning our site at the moment and a minimal homepage is my kinda trip also.

Anyway hope this helps but do have a look at the Tool, it will provide excellent guidance, not just for this page but all pages within your site.

Kind Regards,

Craig

Thats brill Marcus,

Thanks a lot for your help, it took me a little to grasp this one. I can it seem use the Cpanel to set redirects without having to implement the code and then as a fail safe I'll Specify preferred domain directly with Google to Keep em Happy!!

Hopefull no more questions for a couple of hours, ....lol

Cheers for your support.!!

I'm back:

Ok I promise this is the end of it:

Would I be correct in saying that I need to set up a 301 redirect for: http://www.fentonit.com, http://fentonit.com & http://fentonit.co.uk to be perfectly correct and will it be suffice to do this a page level or do I need to do this on every page on every url if I am letting Google know my preferred Domain?

and as the famous Inspector Columbus said....oh just one more thing .............Do I need to do this for an index page also.....?

I may have cracked it, when I run a checker this is what I received back for all the URL's:

`Results of the GSiteCrawler Server-Test
Tested at 6/26/2012 4:25:32 PM / from 217.43.237.128:

URL=http://fentonit.co.uk
Result code: 301 (MovedPermanently / Moved Permanently)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:25:31 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.fentonit.co.uk/
Content-Length: 234
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
New location: http://www.fentonit.co.uk/

URL=http://www.fentonit.co.uk/
Result code: 200 (OK / OK)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:25:31 GMT
Server: Apache
P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: 98defe8f962c0d1d3296da4a786cbd86=14a6986d7361cee18eca06c3dda7101d; path=/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8`

What do you think!?

My Eternal Gratitude,

Craig

www.fentonit.co.uk