URL Redirect

[PeteEllard]

Hi All,

So we have employees who can own their own domains for business, however, one employee has a domain that links back to our main site, but when it does, the URL and Page title of our main site, still say his own domain.

IE: www.johndoe.com links to www.mysite.com except the url and itle still say www.johndoe.com

What are the implications of this?

Thank you

[DirkC]

It means that his site is an exact duplicate of your site and could potentially outrank your site in the search result (unless there is a canonical on which is pointing to the correct url)

He just pointed his domain to your server - instead he should redirect to your site.

Dirk

[Mustansar]

First of all, i think you can have more SEO and User friendly title upon on this redirect and your developer can easily control or insert the title by simple code, unless you want to keep it.

In regards to your question of implications, the only possible implication of this is title is not SEO friendly this can impect you in SERP.On this link you can see complete guide for title and tags.

[ThompsonPaul]

Fully agree with Dirk - this is the proverbial Very Bad Idea.

In addition to the significant issues this can cause with duplicate content, its also going to bork your Analytics. Could also be siphoning link equity if folks are linking to his URLs instead of yours. Especially if he later leaves and  decides to point his domain name to another (possibly competing?!) site.

There's no reason (or justification) for the employee to be using URL masking here. If he/she isn't willing to put the work into making a site of their own, they should be made to do a proper 301-redirect of their domain name to the company site.

Paul