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Google turns up plenty of info, but much of it is too technical, or vague, or both. Plus I trust that a lot of advice here is pretty sound.

Anyhoo, I have a need to forward mysite.net and mysite.org to mysite.com. What’s the thought on the best practice right now? Only .com will have any content, and all are brand new, just being developed. Just need to redirect the 2 other sites to the .com one.

Thanks in advance!

You could use a 301 redirect from your registar. That is what I would do.

I used to park extra domains on top of existing ones (something I can do with CPanel and WebHost controls), so mysite.net would show the content of mysite.org but the search engines now penalise duplicate content. So I currently think that the best approach is to build a single page site on mysite.net with plenty of inks through to mysite.org where your main site is. Treat this as a separate website and give as much content/info as you can to the visitor to encourage them to travel on to mysite.org. Then you can start building different versions of the page using Google optimisation to see what pulls the visitors in. Treat this as a separate mini site.

Thanks guys. Most of the searches I’ve seen do a 301 redirect.

And I really don’t want to show duplicate content, or really manage anything else.

I’d much rather prefer to have the visitor redirected to the .com without doing or noticing anything.