Google indexing my site as a full domain plus subdomain (Hosted as add-on domain)

[John D]

Hey,

I have one main domain, lets say domain.com and then I have my other sites in subdirectories sub.domain.com and they with otherdomain.com

Google has otherdomain.com indexed fully, but it also has a duplicate listing/indexing with the site also showing up as otherdomain.domain.com

Can I stop this as I'm sure it isn't helping having it indexed twice..

Thanks

[dklynn]

JD,

Indeed! You will be penalized (and removed from their database) when the duplicate is detected.

I'm sure you'd rather have your otherdomain.com visited directly rather than via a subdirectory of domain.com so simply use a 301 redirect to make that happen, e.g.:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www\.otherdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.otherdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Regards,

DK