: Two domain names, one hosting my client has registered a domain name on godaddy. He already is hosting a site on smartyhost. Now he wants his godaddy site to point smartyhost site. He does

@Vandalay111

I have a client who wanted about eight different domain names to point to the same website. I could not do this due to SEO, aka the ranking of the website. I did notice that when I had all of the domains redirect to the same site, the ranking dropped off significantly.

If you would like to do what you are asking, ere should be a configuration page with the network host(s) that allows for domain forwarding to the same IP. I know for sure this is the case with Network Solutions, I am not sure about Godaddy however.

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@Angela700

It should be fairly straight forward. Both domains will resolve to the same IP address. The server at that address will know to serve up the same site for both domains. This is fairly easily configured in Apache and also, I imagine, in most other webservers.

Do note that search engines (notably Google) may penalize you for serving up identical content on multiple domains. It is much preferable to have one domain redirect to the other. Case in point, del.iciu.us redirects to delicious.com, rather than serving up the same content on both domains.

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