: Forwarding -- ok for SEO, or should I reinstall WordPress at the forwarded domain? If my main market is UK, and I have both: mydomain.co.uk and: mydomain.com and I want to market the site

@Hamaas447

From an SEO perspective, its better if you have as many domain names as possible listed in Google/Bing. However, there is a chance that you could get penalized for having multiple domain names to increase your SERP. If your website is selling multiple products then you can increase your SEO if you have a domain name for each product (ie: lets say your "Microsoft", then you can improve your SEO with windows8.com, office.com, hotmail.com). If you want to take a chance (and hopefully not get penalized) then you can have both domain names listed so they are different URLs but show the same content. As for choosing which domain name is better, if your website is targeting people in the UK then I would go with ".co.uk" and if your website is global then I would go with ".com".

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@Sue5673885

If the content on both .com and .co.uk sites is the same, you really should redirect from one domain to another, or at very least using rel=canonical for each page pointing only at one TLD. Otherwise Google might see it as content duplication.

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@Jennifer507

Personally I would have the content hosted on .co.uk and a redirect from .com to the content on .co.uk, that way any links will gain SEO momentum for the .co.uk domain.

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