Duplicate META Description

[BradBorst]

Two of my urls point to the same site.  For example: 123.com and OneTwoThree.com.  Because the pages have two separate url's and the same content, my Google Webmaster Tools account is showing this as Duplicate Meta Descriptions.  Is there a way around this?

[scanlin]

Why don't you 301 redirect one of the sites to the other?

[BradBorst]

Hi Mike,

That's a good idea.  I have never done a redirect for a different url.  Below is an example of how I usually do a redirect for a sub-page.  Would it still look like this:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/example1.html$ http://www.example2.com

[scanlin]

You may want to read this page before you go down that path (talks about redirecting one directory to another): http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3205094.htm

I might use something like this in an .htaccess file on the domain that you want to send to the other domain:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

You can leave off the "%{REQUEST_URI}" part if you just want to send them to the home page of the new domain.

[Zumiez]

It sounds like you have a duplicate content problem inclusive of a duplicate Meta description problem. If you can make the content unique on both domains you will have the ability to update the Meta description creating two unique pieces of content which puts you in a better position than you are in now.