2 domains 1 site

[therealrio]

im setting up a WP site on godaddy i have bought 2 domains

domain.com and domain.co.uk

i have setup WP site on www.domain.com

The registrar is different so i found godaddy nameservers and entered into DNS manager on domain.com on the registrar.

it works and forwards to the WP site.

Now i want domain.co.uk to send users to the same wp site i setup.

CAn i do this? I thought jsut use the same godaddy nameservers as above, would that work. I still have to park the domain.co.uk on godaddy.

but is that going to be ok. Someone said google will index both domains and see that they go to the same content and it will be bad for ranking for both domains. is this true.

 

[blizz3010]

redirect it to the domain you want it to be.

 

[Gogol]

You will not receive a penalty if you add canonical meta tag. That way, search engines understand that this page is actually another page but has two urls .

 

[therealrio]

You will not receive a penalty if you add canonical meta tag. That way, search engines understand that this page is actually another page but has two urls .

what do you mean?

do you mean use a masked url forwarding?

 

[Gogol]

what do you mean?

do you mean use a masked url forwarding?

No need to mask anything. Just plain url structure. All you need is to have a meta tag with rel=canonical added to every page, value of which will be the original site url. I am sure there must already be a plugin to do that. If not, you can try to contact someone (including me hehehe) who will make it for you.

 

[therealrio]

ok so for the domain.co.uk on registrar just forward to domain.com
wp site setup on domain.com
have a plugin that now adds
<link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com">
to meta tags of every page?

 

[Gogol]

ok so for the domain.co.uk on registrar just forward to domain.com
wp site setup on domain.com
have a plugin that now adds
<link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com">
to meta tags of every page?

Not domain.com, but domain.com/url-which-is-duplicate

Btw I am sorry about suggesting meta instead of link lol.

 

[therealrio]

but isnt every page going to be duplicate
i dont get it
i am simply setting up a web forward to divert traffic from domain.co.uk to domain.com
so will link still work?

 

[Gogol]

but isnt every page going to be duplicate
i dont get it
i am simply setting up a web forward to divert traffic from domain.co.uk to domain.com
so will link still work?

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/

As for cross domain, refer to this section in that article.

Cross-domain canonical URLs
You might have the same piece of content on several domains. For instance, SearchEngineJournal regularly republishes articles from Yoast.com (with explicit permission). Look at every one of those articles, and you’ll see a rel=canonical link point right back at our original article. This means all the links pointing at their version of the article count towards the ranking of our canonical version. They get to use our content to please their audience; we get a clear benefit from it too. Everybody wins.

Edit: If you just want to redirect, then nothing stops you from doing do. You'll be fine.