Screwed up my SEO and I need some advise..

[Robert]

I have two domains. xyz.com and xyz.co.uk (not real domains!)

I developed an ecommerce site at xyz.com and just had a holding page at xyz.co.uk with a link to xyz.com. I got into dmoz with the xyz.com domain, and started to promote the .com site.

OK so far...

I wanted to change my shopping cart system to something more fully featured. At the same time I wanted to change my webhost provider. So I developed a new site under xyz.co.uk over a month or so, on the new server, leaving xyz.com site running and processing orders.

When I'd finished I wanted to get the site up and running ASAP, and stop paying for th eold webshost So, without thinking it through properly I changed my google adwords/overture ads over to xyz.co.uk site and redirected the xyz.com site to the xyz.co.uk site.

Now everything is running on the .co.uk site and the .com is redirected to the .co.uk site. All my froogle links go to the .co.uk site.

But now I have lost the advantage of having the .com links in.

The obvious solution is to transfer everything over to the .com site. But if I do that Google might see the site as a mirror site and I might get banned by Google. Also Froogle takes a while to change to the new URLs even if I post a new catalogue.

So what should I do? I dont want to do anything which would get me banned by Google!

Thanks for any advice!

[Rob Holmes]

Which one do you get more converting traffic through ?

Rob

Edited because I am braindead and don't know how to underline words properly :)

[Robert]

90%+ comes from adwords anyway, so if I did change back to the .com it would not matter too much.

I could then concentrate of getting back links, to whatever TLD I decide on.

[DuaneJackson]

Change the .com to your main site, set up the .co.uk to redirect to it. Problem solved? As long as the .co.uk has no content and has a 301 permant redirection to .com there are no issues with duplication.

[mattk]

As Duane said - but you must use a 301 re-direct, rather than havin a holding page.

This (http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm) is a very good overview of how 301 works.

[autolycus]

As others have said, any redirection must be done using 301 redirects.

You might find this article on one of our sites useful:
http://advice4businesses.co.uk/blog/index.php/2005/11/09/one_website_with_multiple_domain_names

HTH,
Dave.

[Robert]

Do you know if the redirection in CPanel does a 301 redirect?

Thanks for the advice :)

[MinuWeb]

Do you know if the redirection in CPanel does a 301 redirect?

Thanks for the advice :)

you just need a .htaccess file to setup a 301

the code needed is in the links posted above.

Any cpanel server can handle .htaccess