Same site, many domains

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Same site, many domains

onetry

3:40 pm on Jan 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

In my company, we recently set up a website.

We own .com, .es, .de, .it and .ch domains for the same website.

The website is in 5 languages too, so at the moment these URLs are living together:

www.mysite.com/es
www.mysite.es/es
..
www.mysite.de/it
www.mysite.it/de

and all combination of URLs.

Which is the best way to tell Google to index only the URL that I want and to avoid penalty for duplicate content ?

Thanks for help, regards.

tedster

4:20 pm on Jan 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Use a 301 status redirect to point the urls you don't want to see active to the one that you do want to use.

Also note the following:

There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.
Official Google Blog [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]

onetry

1:29 pm on Jan 14, 2009 (gmt 0)

Do you mean something like this:

(pseudo-programming language)

if url == "www.mysite.ch/es" or url == "www.mysite.es/es" then

redirect 301 to www.mysite.com/es

Do I got it right ?

Unfortunately I have not dynamic programming language support to do this...and I'm using a IIS webserver with no way to use mod_rewrite.

Any help ?

Thanks.

tedster

5:49 pm on Jan 14, 2009 (gmt 0)

Yes, install ISAPI Rewrite (a paid third party plug-in) on your server. It gives IIS the same kind of functionality that Apache has with .htaccess. And the newest version of ISAPI Rewrite even uses the same syntax.

But how many subdomains do you need to redirect? If it's only a handful, you can accomplish the 301 redirect through Internet Services Manager.