Hi Guys,
I am currently in the middle of building a site which has to be
bi-lingual. We have two domains for the site www.ourwales.org.uk and
www.cymruni.org.uk
I am looking for suggestions/help on how to handle the two domains.
Currently ourwales is the prominant/main domain and the one to which the
IP details of the site are set. We are then using an alias within apache
to also point cymruni to the same site. So you see the same site when
you visit, but have two different domains. Both these domains are
advertised.
I have a few worries though, currently both domains point to the english
language version of the site, this will be changed so cymruni goes to
the Welsh language side. Although the language is the same and its
possible for people to flip between the two languages is it possible
that google will see the site as duplicate content?
Also we are having trouble getting the alias to append the lang=cy to it
on first visit. My thought was to make the ourwales domain the prominant
one, and set up a folder with a 301 redirect in it which says
cymruni.org has moved permanantly to ourwales.org.uk/lang=cy that way we
have only one domain indexed.
The reason for writing to this group is two fold
1, how does this affect usability and what is 'best practice' in this
situation?
2, How have/would you implement a problem like this?
Ideally we want to provide the smoothest and friendliest experience to
both the user and SE whichever domain they use.
thanks
Paul
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