: Multiple Domains pointing to one site Newbie here so please excuse me if this has been asked in a different way. My friend has 3 domain names lets say example.com, example.net and example.org.

@Alves908

The best approach for SEO is to replace the existing site at example.org. If any URLs have changed then you need to 301 redirect old to new in order to preserve as much rank as possible. (Although if the site was previous entirely Flash then I'm not sure what old URLs you would have?)

The other domains example.com (where you developed the new site) and example.org carry no SEO value since they've never had a site on them. Save them for a rainy day!


Now they want the .org site to be same as the .com, should I just point the .org DNS to my server and then redirect it to .com in cPanel or is it best to copy and paste all the pages and content into the .org and then delete content from .com.


Point the .org DNS to your server and make that the primary domain. There shouldn't be a need to physically copy any files.

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@Chiappetta492

First, it doesn't where the actual files are, 1 is 'real' the others are aliases. To the outside world they're all alike (unless someone digs up your DNS settings, but they can't do anything with that info).

Then, I suggest you don't make two working domains. This would make you compete with yourself, which is kinda pointless. Choose one and stick to it. You can redirect ALL domains to one domain via .htaccess (this will go to the .com):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*).com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) example.com/ [R=301,L]


The 301 redirect preserves most pagerank (a redirect will cost you a minimal amount). Now, if you set your domains as 1 real, the remaining as aliases in you cPanel, it'll work as you want (or as it should).

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