About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All

Re:About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All by TimMontague on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:30PM (#2013522)

Is there any benefit to having multiple domain names pointing to the same site? For example, I already have myname.com, is there any advantage to also having myname.me?

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Re:About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All by ronnier on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:34PM (#2013536)

Not really, other than preventing another "My Name" from ranking higher in search results for your name than you. It's a land grab.

In my case, I was able to get a shorter URL ronnieroller.com vs ronnie.me. Makes it easier to say over the phone, twitter, etc.

Make sure you set up the redirects properly. Having multiple URLs that point at the same content could penalize you on search engines for duplicate content (I believe).

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Re:About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All by kingsidharth on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:13PM (#2013712)

Not if you make it a 301 redirect.

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