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klrrider

Published on June 19, 2012

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I have a live dot-net site.
I have reciently acquired the exact domain as a dot-com.
I know I could just forward the dot-com to the dot-net but was wondering how that would affect the ability of building keyword search rank for the dot-com site?
I would like to build back links as dot-coms. How will the search bots assign the keyword values... or will they just be lost?
Should I flip them and host the dot-com instead and forward the dot-net?
Don't what to do the extra work for two sites... this is for a client.
You know me... always taking short cuts...

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