Help With Subdomains, Redirects, and Duplicate Content

[Maddmula]

Hey Warriors,

For example purposes:

Primary Domain: Soccer.com
Addon Domain: Baseballshoes.com

I know each addon domain has to have a sub domain because it is the only way the cPanel software is able manage multiple domain names. Well since my addon domain has to have a subdomain, baseballshoes.com is aliased to baseballshoes.soccer.com . As a result when visiting http://baseballshoes.soccer.com/ I see the same exact page as when I go to http://basebalshoes.com/. Obviously no one would ever know the address to http://baseballshoes.soccer.com/ but in case they did, then what? I emailed BlueHost and all they recommended was creating 301 redirects.

If I don't create 301 redirects is this considered duplicate content? Does this mean for every addon domain I register I have to create a redirect for it's subdomain? What do you guys usually do?


What do you usually put in these fields when adding an Addon domain? When creating a new directory is it always: public_html/ "what your domain is w/ out the TLD ending" ? Like public_html/baseballshoes . And is your subdomain just the same thing looking like baseballshoes.soccer.com?



Thanks for the help, just want to make sure I know what I'm doing.

[abhijeet024]

No, you dont need to create a redirect neither in this case nor in the future. Redirects are commonly used for www and non www version of the sites.

If you are having issues like both the www and non www version are showing the same site then you need to redirect one version to the other.

Else, you are absolutely fine and this won't be considered as a duplicate content.

Hope this helps.....!!!!

[Maddmula]

My Primary domain/site is soccer.com , and my Addon domain is baseballshoes.com . So the domian baseballshoes.com is aliased to baseballshoes.soccer.com . It looks like http://www.baseballshoes.com/ , http://www.baseballshoes.soccer.com/ , and http://baseballshoes.soccer.com/ all have the exact same page.

So is this bad? What's the difference between http://"site" vs. http://www."site" ? What do I need to redirect, and do I always have to do this for each Addon domain?

Originally Posted by abhijeet024

No, you dont need to create a redirect neither in this case nor in the future. Redirects are commonly used for www and non www version of the sites.

If you are having issues like both the www and non www version are showing the same site then you need to redirect one version to the other.

Else, you are absolutely fine and this won't be considered as a duplicate content.

Hope this helps.....!!!!

[paulgl]

It's a server issue. Your server thinks it should go to the same
page. A very long time ago I knew the solution. I am too lazy
to look it up now. Somewhere, either in htaccess or other settings,
it can be resolved. If you google stuff and try and be narrow,
you should stumble upon it. It has more to do with what your
server thinks is the default address, but can be overridden. There
are other cases as well, depending how you set up the subdomain,
and tweaked something that shouldn't be tweaked. Like a slash
or something. Or even a config tweak. Your host should be
the expert on this.

My advice is to can the subdomain. Go for a different domain and
build another site, or just go for other keywords in the same site.
Completely plausible for a sports site to have sub-sports pages.
That is, just build pages in different folders.

Paul

[milapetersburg]

I think this can all be handled by using baseballshoes.soccer.com as the CNAME for Baseballshoes.com. If this is already the current configuration, and still the same problem, try using the subdomain as the ns record. If it leads to an error, then the only thing I could think of is to use 301 redirect.