Domain Pointing

[Cormac]

I have two domains and i wan't them each to point to the same server so that when either are typed into a browser they go the same website. For example website.ie and irishwebsite.com both go to ip.address.here.ok ...

Is this kind of action frowned upon by search engines?

 

[mneylon]

The "safest" way to do it is to use a 301 redirect, though simply adding them as aliases usually works fine.. The main thing is not to promote them, as then you can get done for duplicate content

 

[Cormac]

does this 'law' about duplicate content only come to force if in fact both domains display the exact same content? For example...
website.ie/files/page.php and irishwebsite.com/files/page.php both display the exact same content but the content by added by either domain

A real live example
UK:Switch Media PLC - Fast Web Hosting
&
IE:Switch Media PLC - Fast Web Hosting


(99% similar)

 

[mneylon]

Only Google can provide a definitive answer, but the way it would seem to work is that it penalises duplicates.

If you have a look at the way scrudu was handling domain aliases the other week you'd see what I mean. A search query was returning 6 copies of the content - one for each domain alias...