Sometimes a Web site owner wants to change the domain name for a Web site. Sometimes a site owner registers several related domain names and wants to point all of the domain names to a single Web site. If not done properly, this practice can result in a mirror site penalty when search engines find and index (add to their database) the secondary domain names. A mirror site penalty typically results in a significant reduction in rank for the secondary domain names, but there have been cases reported when the search engines reduced the rankings for all of the domain names, including the original domain name. For this reason, it is wise to avoid situations where a site is duplicated under multiple domain names.
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Did you ever wonder how to create the small images seen next to URLs in a browser’s address window or next to bookmarks of Favorites saved in a browser? These images are called Favicons. Favicons are easy to create and work in current versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape and FireFox. Although we have not yet verified it, Favicons are reported to work in the newest version of Opera, as well.
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