summerscloset Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Hello, I am looking for the correct way to have multiple domain names show up in google for the same website. I have added several new domain names to help with more popular search but they arent showing up in search engines. I know there are issues with making sure duplicate content isnt in google but I heard that there was a legitimate way to do this. Any help would be appreciated. I was told by the search engine submission company that the line of code <link rel="canonical"href+"http://www.summerscloset.com/index.php"/> is telling google to index all the domains to the main site. I dont want to change something that will penalize me in google. But I want to be able to take advantage of the multiple domains since I purchased them to help with searches. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I would have thought that just be allowing more than one domain to work with your store would do this naturally over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 You could go to Google Webmaster Tools and "claim" these domains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summerscloset Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 Thanks, I "claimed" the domains although it is the same verification that was already done for the main site but hopefully this will work for the new domains for google at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summerscloset Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Any other ideas? I am still not getting the new domains to show up in search engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I honestly don;t know the answer to this. Maybe there is a speciality company you can hire or an SEO website with forum you can ask on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestSoftware Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Do the other domains have any content on them or are they just 301's to the real site ? It's a common thing to think that you can point more than one domain to the same site and have them spidered and rank in the search results - sadly this hasn't worked for many years in Google as they are smart enough to realise that the extra domains don't have any content on them (especially if you 301 - perm redirect from them to the real site). And yes, the canonical tag you mention basically says that no matter what address is used to get to the page that you want the engines to treat it as if the page was reached using the address in the tag. I've actually seen clients (or actually their developers) get this wrong and as a result the client's website have vanished from the results until the tags are corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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