Does Domain Mapping Leak Link Juice?

[LockCity]

Hi everyone

As per previous posts, we are in the process of setting up a new sideline to the business and after taking great advice from you guys, we have bought a new domain - which is fuelsos.co.uk -

To save on hosting fees, I have created a subdirectory on our main site at http://lockcity.co.uk/fuelsos/ which is in the process of being mapped to fuelsos.co.uk (will take affect in next 24hrs)

My question is, am I leaking link juice from my main site doing this? or should I look at buying seperate hosting?

Many thanks, Abi

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey Abi,

That sounds kind of wacky and really, you can get hosting so cheap, I would just grab some hosting and save yourself some potential problems.

what if content gets indexed on:

http://lockcity.co.uk/fuelsos/ & 
http://fuelsos.co.uk

This could cause duplication issues etc

Also, you could simply just run this as a service page on your main site so you could just have the content on:

http://lockcity.co.uk/fuelsos/

Certainly, there are benefits from having one site instead of two in terms of the scope of the work you have to do.

If you do want a separate URL, then I would spring for the hosting and at around £3.00 a month from a bunch of reputable UK providers really, that is going to serve you better than a redirect.

Just my thoughts!

Marcus

[TomRayner]

Great advice here from Marcus.

To expand on his point on hosting, you should see if Vidahost can provide what you need - I've found them to be very reliable and affordable for some blogs. Good customer service as well.

[Marcus_Miller]

Good call.

[irvingw]

Are you sure your hosting plans doesn't cover more than one site? You can probably set up a new site right along site the existing one on the same server / hosting package. If not then you can easily upgrade your existing hosting contract.

If these sites are directly competing for the same keywords it probably makes sense to keep them separate and go with some other hosting company so that they are seen as being distinct.