Conversion from .US to .COM Continues

[Scott Greczkowski]

Last week we started our conversion from .US to .COM last week and this morning I started updating URLS to point to .COM instead of .US as we work to move entirely to .COM.

When you go to .COM you will need to login again since the cookie is different.

We plan on phasing out .US by the end of the year to avoid google duplicate content penalties.

Please let me know if you have any issues. (And I am sure there will be some)

Thanks!

 

[TheKrell]

You can't keep the US domain around, in any capacity?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Nope it will be forwarded to .COM or the search engines penalize us for having duplicate content.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Maybe once you get rid of the .US your site will finally be accessible from China..

 

[Dudleydog73]

Well this is unfortunate. It appears that the .COM site is actively blocked at work by the corporate web proxy, but the .US site works (which is what I'm on now).

This will cut into my web browsing considerably at work.

 

[riffjim4069]

I block DBSquawk and categorize it as Malingering/Shirking across the Enterprise. Needless to say, SatelliteGuys is permitted.

 

[yaz96]

Penalizing you how?

 

[Mr Tony]

when I try to log in using the .com I get this error message

invalid Redirect URL (http://www.satelliteguys.com/)

 

[whitewolf8214]

So far so good here no problems but I bet I jinx myself now

 

[HIFI]

I don't recall where but i remember seeing Scott post Somewhere that the change over has been postponed for a bit.

Sent from my DROID RAZR MAXXIMIZED using SatelliteGuys

 

[Mr Tony]

weird...its working now (at least the loggin in)

If I log in using the login on the left hand side I get that error but the login on top works fine

 

[Teehar]

weird...its working now (at least the loggin in)

If I log in using the login on the left hand side I get that error but the login on top works fine

Had to try twice but logged in on the .com side now.

 

[Neutron]

Can you keep the US just as a redirect or will Google penalize is there too?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yes will will use the .us as a redirect with a 301 code that tells the search bots all content has moved to the .com

 

[Pepper]

I must have missed the discussion if there was one... exactly why is this being done?

 

[rodder]

well i have tried everything cleared cookies signed in on top and the side and i still get this.
(Invalid Redirect URL (http://www.satelliteguys.com/)

 

[Hall]

We plan on phasing out .US by the end of the year to avoid google duplicate content penalties.

Yes will will use the .us as a redirect with a 301 code that tells the search bots all content has moved to the .com

Only for 2-3 weeks ?

 

[Hall]

Penalizing you how?

I don't know if he means via where the site shows up in search results or if it's related to ad revenue ... but I'm guessing it's the $$$ one.

 

[Hall]

when I try to log in using the .com I get this error message

invalid Redirect URL (http://www.satelliteguys.com/)

It's still doing this

 

[Hall]

This may or may not be related, but.... hmmm, just see now that I'm at the .us site again....

Anyway, I've changed my bookmark to point to the .com site and not to .us anymore. Every time I return, I am no longer logged in. I've removed ALL *.satelliteguys.* cookies too. I see that logging in on the left-hand fields still gives the invalid redirect error and you end up at the .us site. So does using the top row login box. That's the problem, huh ?