Other support requests seem to touch on aspects of my question, but I couldn't find any that actually answer the specifics of mine:

I'm setting up a site using domain access to cover different themes and content for different countries.

The main site (International) is mysite.com and I've used the subdomains uk.mysite.com (United Kingdom) and mobi.mysite.com (Mobile), etc.

This part is easy enough, but trying to make access easy for the end user, I've also registered the domains mysite.co.uk and mysite.mobi, etc. The intention is for these sites (mysite.co.uk and mysite.mobi) to be used for promoting the website in each respective category/country (easier for the customer to remember). Essentially, what is the best way to put this into action also without having search engine problems. I still consider myself a newbie, but I understand most of the concepts.

Is it fine to simply use a page redirect to www.uk.mysite.com from www.mysite.co.uk, etc, or should I be cloaking the redirection, etc.

Thanks in advance. I imagine this question will be relevant to others using domain access as well.

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agentrickard
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Not sure about the cloaking; I don't think that is a major issue, as Google is pretty smart about redirects.

Normally, you can use the Domain Alias module to register the extra domains as "aliases" of the proper domains. That will handle any inbound requests to the improper domains.

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Andy1981 commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Thanks. Actually, I was being a bit slow. I forgot that domain access could be used for domains and not just subdomains. I'm not that comfortable (just yet) configuring anything more that subdomains, but I've set up the above using 301 redirects (apache). I'll be sure to post any comments if google comes down hard on the site :-)

Thanks for your reply.