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webmac
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Sep 12, 2005, 1:38 PM
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I've got a client wanting to point 2 separate domains to 2 separate index pages within the same website. Does anyone know of any scripting to call the second page to the second domain? Also, any consequences to seo I should be aware of regarding this?
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alpine
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Sep 14, 2005, 10:02 AM
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Re: [webmac] 2 Domains pointing to 2 index pgs same site.
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It depends what you want to do...
Assuming you want to take domain1.com and redirect it to domain3.com/apage.htm and domain2.com and redirect it to domain3.com/anotherpage.htm as landing pages, then you should do a 301 redirect (if on Apache - there are other alternatives for MS) within htaccess.
This does have big implications for search engines with duplicate content and flow of link value, so it is worth taking the time, understanding what you are doing and getting it right.
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webmac
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Sep 14, 2005, 10:06 AM
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Thanks for the reply! I've also found out that I might be able to call a secondary page from a secondary domain with a php or asp script. Are you aware of any seo implications from using a call script?
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alpine
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Sep 14, 2005, 10:22 AM
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Re: [webmac] 2 Domains pointing to 2 index pgs same site.
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I'm still not quite sure what you are aiming to do.
Do you want to include content from domain3 on domain1 and domain2, while still appearing to be on domain1 and domain2?
Or do you want queries to domain1 and domain2 to end up on different pages of domain3?
In any case, php and asp are server-side so they take place before a search engine would see anything. Watch out that they do not leave anything odd in the URL (such as odd characters or session IDs).
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webmac
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Sep 14, 2005, 12:35 PM
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OK. One more time. I have www.domainA.com pointing to a default indexA.htm. I want another www.domainB.com pointing to another indexB.htm in the same directory. I found a php script that I think I can use as index.htm and if I point both domains to that same ip address it should pull up the appropriate index page for each subsequent domain. Now, my question is, what are the ill effects this will have with any search engines, any? OR, is there any other better ways to accomplish this?
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alpine
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Sep 14, 2005, 1:26 PM
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The way you have described it - and if you are not using any funky client-side redirection or odd dynamic URLs - there should be no major problems from the search engine point of view for the index.htm page. I'm assuming from that that the links heading out from that page are the same whichever domain the visitor comes from? (If they are not you are going to run into problems with spidering, orphaned pages and suchlike.)
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webmac
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Sep 14, 2005, 1:35 PM
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Well Steve, my php and domain experience are very very limited, but this seems pretty cut and dry to me. Thanks again for your input!
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Sep 14, 2005, 1:46 PM
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Just one final point - I would try to keep the essentials of the different pages which are masquerading as the index.htm as close as possible, or else you will end up jumping around in different search rankings.
In other words, "Blue Widgets from Smith" and "Blue Widgets from Jones" rather than "Red Lobsters from Mars" and "Pink Cadillacs from Venus".
I've assumed in my answers that you are just wanting to rebrand the same content (which would be the normal reason for doing what you are attempting).
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webmac
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Sep 14, 2005, 1:56 PM
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This is the case, the two index pages are identical other than a couple of text paragraphs and images. Links exiting the pages are the same.
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Hi Webmac,
Thanks for posting! 
It looks to me like you've found the solution you were looking for. Thanks Steve for your input and suggestions into this and I'm sure this thread will be helpful in the future if someone else is trying to set up something similar on their website.
If you have any other questions or comments you can feel free to let me know!
Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
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webmac
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Sep 15, 2005, 9:20 AM
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Oh..excuse me. I didn't mean to be rude. Yes, thank you Steve for you input. Was so wrapped up in my discussion I forgot to Thank You!!!
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