Duplicate domain names - .net and .com Create separate pages, or redirect?

Duplicate domain names - .net and .com Create separate pages, or redirect? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Duplicate domain names - .net and .com Create separate pages, or redirect? error on your web browser. Problem :

In a SEO point of view:

This website has a good amount of traffic for a local business, but also ships some merchandise.
While the .net domain (registered first) is associated with the local busines (google places, maps, etc...) the .com domain only redirects to the .net domain.

Is it good, bad or okay to create a different page for the domain .com for example, that would be pretty simple, but would link to the 10 different categories of products that this company sells?

I know links are good, so there's that, but what else is good, or bad?

Thanks in advance!

Solution :

You're best to keep things as they are, unless you're making two entirely different websites. From a customer's point of view, it could just be confusing to see a .com and a .net of what appears to be the same company. There's also the consistency of branding to think about.

From an SEO point of view, you definitely want to avoid duplicate content. But is it really necessary to devote your time to this second site? What is it really supposed to accomplish?

If you're looking to create "mini sites" you're better off keeping the redirect and using subdomains on your main site.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the domains, redirects, multiple-domains error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!