Hi,
I have set up a sub domain, put a copy of my folder into / public / had to change “Doc Set Up” … Resources / With HTML Files, for the sub domain to work properly.
Kept a duplicate folder in / www / with the standard output Resources / Separate Resource Files. Both are duplicate files or directories from the same domain, one in /public/ and the other in /www/.
Question: Will goggle penalize one duplicate or will it show both or half & half .
Pete
In some of the servers I use, public is the master container for all subdomains. So you would see /public/ and /public/www. Is that what you are describing here?
What happens on this server if you enter the domain name only, without any subdomain:
Hi Walter,
Yes I see the same site on Domain (www.example.com) or Sub domain (example.com), these folders are not linked together so pages could be different.
Slightly off the subject, if for example I have the same pages on “two different domains” then google penalizes me and shares the search between both of them.
Two domains with exactly the same content, say 4 pages on each. Google shows two pages from one domain & the other two pages from the other domain.
This has happened to me before, had two companies sharing exactly the same product, look & words.
Had to change the wording and image names slightly on one domain so you could search all the four pages on that one domain and not have two pages penalized.
OK, Sorry back to the question… because we are talking about duplicates on the “same domain”,
Do I have to remove the duplicate folder in /www/ or can I keep both. I prefer google searches to go to the Sub domain and not www, which one will take the preference?
Hope this makes sense.
These should serve the same exact content, and if your host doesn’t provide some sort of automatic alias behavior so you don’t need to maintain two separate copies of your site. I don’t think Google punishes you for this particular duplication. They may not be so lenient if you use different subdomains than www. Certainly if you had the same content at www.example.org and someotherdomain.org, they would.
Thanks Walter,
I will trial it and see which one google picks up first, Yes we are talking the same language but a domain to me includes the “www” first. http://www.mysite.com/products “Domain” http://products.mysite.com “SubDomain”
Anything before your domain name (such as www.) is a subdomain.
Joe
On 5 Aug 2008, at 16:34, Pete wrote:
Thanks Walter,
I will trial it and see which one google picks up first, Yes we are
talking the same language but a domain to me includes the “www” first. http://www.mysite.com/products “Domain” http://products.mysite.com “SubDomain”
I know I used to think that the www part was how the server knew to send HTML, but I was clued in by someone wiser who rolled his eyes as he pondered just how dumb I might be.
http:// makes the server say “hello, someone wants a bite of hypertext”. But the subdomain www is just a cliche that us humans have come to recognize and assign mystical powers to.