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Originally Posted by nuclear500
DNS doesn't know what a web browser is, nor does it care.
The only way to change the text in the address bar is via either a dummy site that redirects or have both names sit at the same IP and the website itself checks which name was used and redirects.
GoDaddy is probably just doing the dummy site redirect for you, I'd ask them.
You're probably right, I never looked into how exactly their redirect works/differs from a standard 301.
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Originally Posted by z28dreams
I think you both missed the point.
Sure, you could point the other domain to the same nameserver/host, but the idea of the 301 is so that google/yahoo/etc transfer pagerank to your desired site. If other sites link to the hyphen domain, you want that to transfer.
A meta-refresh or other temporary redirects won't help.
Whatever method GoDaddy performs appears to work the same as a 301, though like I said, I don't know *exactly* how it works. Try typing blackbooksingles.net into your browser, and you'll see the address bar changes into the .com domain. I never bothered to look into how GoDaddy does it, but I assume it's basically the same as nuclear500 pointed out above.
In any case, I'm not disagreeing with you, I was just trying to add an alternative to the response.
Similarly, to whoever asked the original question, you'll want to either use www or no www. In other words, if you want your visitors to come to
www.example.com, then you should make
example.com perform a 301 redirect to
www.example.com as well.
Also, in case it's not clear, the whole reason for this is that it boosts your link juice in search engines so that you'll appear higher in the search results for incoming links...so if some external websites point to
www.example.com/some-page.html, and other external websites point to
example.com/some-page.html, you don't want the link juice to seem as though it goes to 2 different pages. The 301 redirect tells search engines that these are the same page, and so your link juice is combined.
Last edited by KidLifeCrisis; 08-30-2008 at 11:39 PM.