Redirecting one domain to another, or not

[eetc]

At the moment I maintain publictransport.co.uk and public-transport.co.uk separately as I want them both to be crawled and listed by Google (and the others of course). I'd like to maintain one only, and reditect the other to that one but I fear that will reduce my visibility. I have avoided this step so far as I believed that redirects were bad in SEO terms, but, I am wondering if this is really the case. If I simply take a copy of the destination page and make that my reditect page will the crawlers do the same job?

Chris

 

[tifosi]

The bots look more kindly if the redirect is permanent. *nix only using .htaccess
To redirect "index.html" to another domain using a 301-Moved permanently redirect, use one of:

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.example.com/index.html
redirect permanent /index.html http://www.example.com/index.html
redirectpermanent /index.html http://www.example.com/index.html

To redirect all files:

redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1
redirectMatch permanent ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1

 

[eetc]

Thanks Tifosi

I am hosted on IIS (through choice) but your reply sent me Googl'ing and I turned up this very interesting thread: http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5644

I'm still not clear though. I can configue my hosting so both domains point at the same directory but I don't want to do that as then I have to apply to every program twice at TradeDoubler, once for each domain.

Chris