I am a webmaster and had a customer wanting 2 URL's pointing to the same pages, sitting on my server. I explained that the search engines will ban your sites because that is known as a mirrored site. They bawked and said I didn't know what I was talking about. To-date, the site has been banned from google and lost all page rankings. The other engines are following suit. The company is a believer now but now its going to take another 6 months to re-work this site. Their site is dead in the water unles you know the URL.

Have 2 sites pointing to the same pages, sitting on the same server is not the way to go. If you do have that scenario, you need to pick one URL and use the proper meta tags so the search engines don't crawl it. The perfect scenario would be to move one of the URL's onto another server in case the first server goes down, you've got the back up server and your site is still up and running. That's what larger companies do. For the small guy, 1 URL is all you need. If you want to buy all the domain names that pertain to your site, put different information on each page and link them all to the main site.

Don't be greedy - 1 URL is the best way to go!

Leanne
www.arrivelasvegas.com