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Domain Mapping and SEO?

by Sergiel
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Hi there I recently purchased an unlimited hosting account. I am building a number of niche domains and needed hosting for them.

The hosting account is not a reseller account, and he tells me I can set up multiple sites by using domain mapping. Im not exactly sure what this means but it seems to mean that I need to set up subfolders in my 1 account and just redirect my url to that folder.

If I am correct, what are the consequences SEO wise? I just have the gut feeling using redirects is not as good as having completely seperate hosting accounts set up within a reseller account.

Are my concerns founded, and should I get my money back and look for an actual reseller hosting account with WHM Cpanel?

Any help would be great, thanks.

Serge
#domain #mapping #seo
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Sergiel,

    Multiple domains on a singe account should be no problem as far a SEO goes. It's nice having a single Control panel for all you sites. But, if you are flipping websites then you be better off getting a reseller account so when you flip the site you can provide a ready hosted sit with it's own CP.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sergiel
      Thanks!

      So redirecting url's doesn't have any negative impact? Will my redirected site have its own PR, set up this way?

      Thanks
      Serge
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      • Profile picture of the author dburk
        Hi Sergiel,

        If you are redirecting server side it is okay, just dont do a "302 Temporary Redirect". Use mod rewrite or Server.transfer method and search engine bots will not detect the redirect.
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        • Profile picture of the author Sergiel
          Thanks. I have not Idea how to do this redirect server side. I set up a folder in my root directory for the 2nd website but not sure where to go from here. I have been looking in my hosting control panel for a possible function that would allow me to do this easily but doesn't seem to be one. Any advice on this would be great.

          Another question I had, say my 2nd website: www(dot)website2.info is now redirected to: www(dot)website1.info/website2 once the visitor reaches my site is the url going to show up www(dot)website1.info/website2 ?

          If so I think I may get a refund and just go with the regular hosting reseller account as website 1 is fairly niche specific and will having nothing to do with all the other sites I intend to host on this server.

          Thanks all.
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