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Addon Domains allow you to host several independent websites using one hosting account. To manage e-mail, databases, subdomains, and other features of the addons you will use your primary account. The files for addon domains are stored in a separate directory (ex: mydomain.com/addon1). When accessing the addon domain (ex: addon1.com) it displays all the files in that directory as if they were a separate website. In other words, addon1.com points to mydomain.com/addon1.
Is it safe to put 2 of your websites using addon domains. Means 1 hosting account and 1 added domain using that feature?
What does search engines think about it?
[edited by: caveman at 7:20 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2007]
[edit reason] Clarification [/edit]
Are you planning to link them to each other?
Are they going to get their external inbound links from the same places... or from different places?
In other words, addon1.com points to mydomain.com/addon1
"Points" is an incredibly vague word, and I'm not sure what they're talking about here. I've seen server setups where the web directory of each domain is set up as subdirectory of public-html, and you have separate sites returning 200 status codes. These share the same IP, and my questions were getting at the search consequences of running multiple sites on a shared IP account.
As I reread your question, though, I think that the setup you're describing may well be something different. From what you quote, it sounds like this hosting arrangement isn't for setting up separate sites, really, but rather for "branding" a particular directory on your site by assigning a domain name to a directory.
If they're doing a 302 redirect from the addon domain to the directory, you'd end up with dupe content problems... but I'm not sure that is what they're doing. I leave that to more experienced server hands, who might recognize the setup.
Same market sites, interlinked, getting inbound from wherever they want to link, some in common others don't.
Same market sites, interlinked, getting inbound from wherever they want to link, some in common others don't.
I wouldn't do this on sites sharing the same IP, whatever the setup for adding new domains.
In fact, I myself wouldn't do this with my own sites or client sites in general... not where I was concerned with longterm domain viability.
