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Old 03-21-2008, 02:39 PM
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Default Re: How To Improve Rankings When Site Owner Duplicates Their Own Web Site

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Originally Posted by mdiadmin View Post
We use IIS and host headers so all 4 of these domain names point to the same folder on our web server. There is only one folder or website for plastics. There is no duplicate. This is the folder that Jeff has access to update.
OK then that is the problem then. You are letting the search engines decide which domain to show in the search engine results pages. I can create a post on my blog today and link to all 4 versions. Google will crawl all 4 links and then decide on their own which is the primary and then potentially filter the rest. MSN and Yahoo could be worse with duplicate content, but I wont get into that now.

So the next step is decide which on is the primary and then 301 redirect the other three to it like has been suggested 5 times before in this thread.

Matching 4 domains to one IP will always potentially cause this problem because you cant control how people link to you if you offer them 4 different domains to do so.
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