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Re: Effect of Parked Domain on Rankings

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You don't even have to do it on yoru server, and not even have to park
the domain there. The 301 redirection can be done from the
registrar's.

On Sep 5, 10:50 pm, dockarl wrote:

> As a cPanel user myself, I can concur with Bergy - if you use the
> 'permanent' setting in your redirect manager, it will be a 301 - and
> it makes life alot easier under your circumstances than playing
> with .htaccess.

> I actually wrote about this (the practice of buying and parking loads
> of domains and why it can be negative for SEO) not so long ago -http://www.utheguru.com/multiple-copies-of-a-website-and-duplicate-co...

> doc

> On Sep 6, 12:20 pm, Berghausen wrote:

> > Welcome to the Group, Nick!  It's always good to see new faces.

> > I'm not very familiar with Web Host Manager, which is a part of
> > cPanel,
> > a popular web host controlling panel.  According to the documentation
> > I
> > have found, and fellow Googler and cPanel user Wysz, "parking" a
> > domain
> > in cPanel will return the same pages for two different URLS.  If you
> > had
> > posted your URLs, I could confirm this for you--but for now, I'll
> > rely
> > on my best-educated guess. :-)

> > If this is indeed the case, then you might encounter some problems.
> > In
> > almost every case, Google will rank your site independently from
> > other
> > sites on your nameserver or IP, as we recognize that most webmasters
> > have no control over who is placed on their shared IP by their
> > hosting
> > company.  However, by having two different sites with the exact same
> > content, you are likely splitting your incoming links between the
> > two,
> > which means you're splitting your PageRank between your two domains
> > making it harder to rank well with either one.

> > To help us (and your other visitors) understand how the two domains
> > are related, you can set up a 301-redirect (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=3...
> > ) pointing from the files on one domain to the same files on your
> > preferred domain.  This is what Google itself does from our domainhttp://www.gooogle.com/(3o's) tohttp://www.google.com/.

> > cPanel has a Redirect Manager that you can use to this effect, but
> > make
> > sure that you set your redirects to "Permanent!" (That means 301.)
> > If
> > your version of cPanel doesn't support wild card matching, you could
> > even look into configuring .htaccess files instead.

> > Hope that helps!
> > -Bergy

> > On Sep 5, 1:44 am, NickW wrote:

> > > Does a parked domain have any detrimental effect on site ranking?

> > > The parked domain has the same nameservers as the main domain,
> > > pointing to a shared Linux webserver, and the additional domain was
> > > setup as 'parked' in Web Host Manager.- Hide quoted text -

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