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In common with many website owners, I have multiple domain names pointing at a single website (markwilson.co.uk<\/a>, markwilson.me.uk<\/a> and markwilson.it<\/a>). There’s nothing wrong with that (it’s often used to present localised content or to protect a trademark) but certain search engines will penalise sites where it appears that multiple URLs are being used to present duplicate content<\/a> (hence increasing the link count and inflating the position within the index).<\/p>\n

The trick is to ensure that the domains are merged in a manner which is acceptable to the major search engines. It’s generally accepted that the way to do this is to choose the primary domain name (in my case, that’s markwilson.co.uk) and to rewrite any requests received by the web server(s) on any secondary domain names so that they are redirected to the primary domain name (using HTTP status code 301 – moved permanently).<\/p>\n

For a site running on an Apache web server with the mod_rewrite module compiled, this is achieved using some directives in the .htaccess file<\/a>. A description of the required code can be found in various locations, including Brian V Bonini’s 301 permanent redirect article<\/a> but my site uses some code from a recent .net magazine<\/a> article to combine the domain name rewrite with the placement of any missing www prefix:<\/p>\n

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After making the changes, it’s important to check the server headers (e.g. using the SEO Consultants check server headers tool<\/a>) and ensure that the server is correctly returning an HTTP status code 301 that redirects to the primary domain name, hopefully resulting in an eventual HTTP status code 200 – OK:<\/p>\n

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#2 Server Response: http:\/\/www.primarydomain<\/em>.com\/
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\nDate: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:19:44 GMT
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