One website, two domains

[RHunt]

Hi All,

It's nice to have a forum where I don't feel completely lost in. I've learned a ton of tips from you all and attribute what success I've had to your gracious help. I still do consider myself a novice at this.

A friend of mine who is a local entertainer in Ruidoso, New Mexico has written a new song about a local favorite here, Smokey Bear. I've done a real simple template site for him. He's registered two domains: markremington.com and smokeybearsong.com. The main site I guess will be the smokey site...more searches on old Smokey than on my buddy Mark, but I would like both to show up in the search engines. Do I need to post a one page site on the mark remington site that refers folks to the Smokey site? Or is there some type of redirect that will allow both sites a chance to show up in the search engines?

We're just arranging for the hosting and I haven't done anything yet but the one site ready to upload. Comments or suggestions appreciated. As usual, thanks for the help!

[incrediblehelp]

If you want both to show up then both will need unique content.

[RHunt]

Thanks Incredible! I was thinking that might be the only way to do it.

[sarpras]

Do not start Mirror website. Same content with two domains. Google will ban from their SE.

[Webnauts]

Do not start Mirror website. Same content with two domains. Google will ban from their SE.
Google will not ban the sites. They will simply dismiss one of them.

[pchauhan]

HI Rhunt


I will suggest you must use smokysite as a main site.. becoz as u said ( more searches on old Smokey) so use this site. ans use 2nd site for refenece for 1st site.. this way both site will be live on the internet and google will not ban the sites use only different content for sites . but very very closet to your themes..either on best option is from my pont view is .. use any wordpress theme in 2nd sites and use it just like blog which has always different data but use most of post related to 1st site......


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[robbluther]

If you are aggressive enough, use the smokey domain for the content and the other domain for a blog that talks about his performances or something. Then you can link to the smokey site from the blog... giving you a little PR boost.

[RHunt]

Thanks to all of you. You've given me some great ideas and I appreciate your time.

[drmadcow]

I'd definitely do both sites, and more then a few pages on each site as Google likes to see a few pages in your index and double listings are better then single ;) As for redirects there is no point just get a hosting package at somewhere like Hostgator that allow you to have multiple sites on the same hosting at a low price. You'll probably also want to build a few links to each in the forums, maybe submit the sites to a bunch of forums in the web design review :) Cheers.

[crazyseo]

If you are aggressive enough, use the smokey domain for the content and the other domain for a blog that talks about his performances or something. Then you can link to the smokey site from the blog... giving you a little PR boost.

As i think this is the perfect solution for you. By this you will be able to use both the domains in same manner but in different way. Thus both will get advantages.

[christucker]

i am currently using the above technique (one site for main content, the other as a blog with quick updates) and it's working well. but in the past in a similar situation i used to just have the two (actually more like 5 or 6) domains all pointing to the same site (i.e. i set up in godaddy that all my domains were pointing to the same DNS)

Can someone explain to me why the first technique is better than the second?

Cheers,
Chris

[confettiguru]

In redirects Google only gives ranking to the final site. If you have some kind of content on each they could each get position then you could link them to the site you feel is your primary site.
Just be sure you have unique content on both. I've tried both. I had a site that had been up for about 10 years. I did a redesign and uploaded that with a new domain. As soon as I changed site one, partyconfetti.com to a redirect it dropped out of the search ranking on all sites. It sucks but you'll have to put content for each

[zeruel]

I believe they should really have different content...

[confettiguru]

I totally agree, they should have different content.