Hi,
Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find any posts on the subject.
I'd be grateful for any advice on a query I have regarding addon domains and the risk of being penalised for duplicate content by the search engines. I have several addon domains set up my main domain account with Eukhost...however, each standalone addon domain can be accessed also by inputting the url for its equivalent subdomain name which is automatically set up at the same time the addon domain is created in cpanel. So if I have an addon domain such as addondomain.com it is also automatically created as a subdomain of the main account, namely addondomain.maindomain.com.
And to add to my confusion the addon domain can also be accessed by two other urls by adding www. before both of the both examples. So any given web site hosting can be accessed by four different urls.
What concerns me is that I've noticed three of the four examples above are being spidered by Google on my various addon domains - so does this not mean there's a serious risk of each web site hosting being seen as four sites by Google with 100% duplicate content?
I hope this makes sense - apologies if I've not described things too clearly.
I found a post here:
Rankwell Blog Archive Htaccess for addon domains on another forum which seems to suggest there is a danger of being penalised. Has anyone else any advice they could give be and have they taken the measures suggested in the link above? I've also come across suggestions that 301 redirects are necessary so I'm getting more baffled by the hour. I'd be grateful for a simple step by step guide on what to do as I'm not particularly technical.
Thanks
Wes