Does your company have multiple domain names with similar content because of domain masking? You might think that the pointer domains appear in various sites, but you still have just one main site. Google, when they index your pointer domains, may actually index all the domains you have or just drop them completely. If this is something happening to you then you need to know what to do. Google usually only indexes the original website and content, which means you are losing consumer base if you don’t fix the problem.
domain masking, pointer domains
Google and other search engines don’t like domain masking or pointer domains. They believe the sites to be a duplicate site. For example you have a URL www.cats-dogs-petcare.com. You also have a URL www.allpetneeds.com. The domain name names are different. However, the pages are actually showing similar content. In fact you just copied and pasted information from one site to the other, with no changes. Google then does a crawl of the two sites. The search engine sees duplicate content. Google now decides to choose the first site over the second and displays it in the results.
Google may also decide that since both are duplicate content neither site will be shown in the results section, therefore both are not indexed. The best thing to do in this case is to get rid of one site completely. You don’t want to have the domain masking, which is essentially a different name for the site. You should also change any pointer domains you have to a permanent 301 redirect to the main site. This means anyone using the alternate site will be sent directly to your new page.
After you have ended the masking of pages from Google you can get your missing pages back. All you have to do is log into the Google Webmaster Tools and submit a request for consideration. You should explain the problem you had, that you corrected it, and see if they will allow the pages to reappear. Typically after reconsideration Google will index the none duplicate pages again.
If you over look what we have mentioned in this article it could damage the search engine optimisation of your website. This could be a terrible shame if you have a high quality website which is not getting ranked well for it’s relevant keyphrases just because you overlooked such details.
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