Good day,
I am new to these DNS issues, and would like to ask the following query:
I have my domain with its respective website hosted on my hosting, for example:
www.cebolla.com and the website is stored in the /public_html directory
We want to buy a new domain for the public of Colombia, therefore this other domain will be www.cebolla.com.co , however we want that when entering this address the same web stored in /public_html is displayed
My question is if it is possible to do this or do I necessarily have to have different contents. I have read somewhere that if possible it would involve risking being sanctioned by Google for duplication of content. That is true?
My hosting is Linux/Apache
I will appreciate your response.
Both answers are yes. Yes, you can make the same content be linked by two different web addresses. You just have to add all the domains you have in the Apache configuration with ServerName and point them all to the same server address.
Obviously the DNS of the two domains must point to the same server.
As for Google, leaving aside that the search engine's algorithm is secret and changes often, it does seem that duplicate content is penalized. Possibly not in both domains, but at least in one of them, in the one that Google decides is not the original.
I think that having a domain for Colombia would be justified only in the event that your site is going to have a Colombian version of the site .
Reading and understanding: Managing Google Multi-Region and Multi-Language Websites , I think can help you make the best decision.
The document begins by saying:
In other words, a key to determining whether to have multiple sites is that they have different content (or the same content, but in different languages).
An easy idea to understand this is the translations, a site can have a version in English, one in Spanish, one in French...
In this case, you do not run the risk of being penalized and you can even have different installations within the same main domain, creating a structure like this:
We are talking about a single domain, with four installations.
Versions can be accessed by something like this:
or by
Example
My original site is called:
deiverbum.org
And it has a version relative to your app:app.deiverbum.org
Are:
The structure is:
Another possibility is to buy domains with version-specific extensions, the advantage is that the SEO would be more specific. For example, a domain with an extension
.it
has more visibility in Italy than something likedominio.com/it
orit.dominio.com
. If that advantage is sought, then it would be better to buy the domains:Then you install in each one the version of the site in the respective language.
The question here is to know if your site will really have a Colombian version , if so, what justifies having it? What difference would it have with the Spanish version? If it is the same content, it seems unreasonable to me to duplicate it. You are going to be penalized and maintenance will be uphill sooner or later.
Another thing is that your site has a section for Colombia . Then you can put that content inside a folder
/colombia
and put Colombia's own thing there .You could have two domains for the same site, to be SEO friendly I suggest that one domain instead of loading the duplicate web, do the redirection explicitly in this way the traffic would be directed to a single destination or original content. (301)
You could also use the tag
rel=Canonical
to indicate to search engines that it is indeed duplicate content (In the links of duplicate content)