Canonical URL redirect to different domain - SEO benefits?

[NortonSupportSEO]

Hello Folks,

We are having a SEO situation here, and hope your support will help us figure out that.

Let's say there are two different domains www.subdomian.domianA.com and www.domainB.com.

• subdomain.domainA is what we want to promote and drive SEO traffic.
• But all our content lies in domainB.

So one of the thoughts we had is to duplicate the domainB's content on subdomian.domainA and have a canonical URL redirect implemented.

Questions:

1. Will subdomain.domainA.com get indexed in search engines for the content in domainB by canonical redirect? Do we get the SEO benefits?
2. So is there any other better way to attain this objective?

Thanks in advance.

[AlanMosley]

Canonical tag is the poor mans 301 redirect, point domainB at A then do a 301 redirect.

if you have the content in the same fodler stucture this is quite easy.

I have some tutorial to do so on a windows servers.

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials

[RDK]

I've never heard of canonical being used to point at another domain.  Alan's advice is the same as mine- "duplicate" the content on subdomain.domain.A.com and 301 redirect the URLs.  Alan also makes a good suggestion in implementing your 301 redirects globally rather than page by page.

[AlanMosley]

It was only recent that Google ancouced that they now allow it.