I have a simple question about SEO and Google: i'm running a site with 19 characters into the domain name ( a bit long i think) so i'm planning to register a 3 characters domain name, then from the Cpanel redirect this 3 characters domain to the main one (the longer one). Is this solution balck SEO?, is possible being banned from Google for this?. I'm looking for this solution just to help members to remember better the domain name and make friendly the site. Any suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance.- (@ Mods: if i'm posting on wrong category pls move this thread to the right one).
Nope, its not black hat. Just make sure you do a server side 301 from one to the other and you will be fine. This is fairly common. That said, if your 3 letter domain is vaguely relevant you may want to 301 things the other way around. Don't do this however if the domain is well ranked etc. It will cause some issues in the short term. So, I would essentially weigh the benefits of doing it one way or the other. If the domain is a complete pain to type in, it may be beneficial to use the 3 letter domain as your primary site. Food for thought. hope that helps, Nigel
thanks a lot for your reply, but to be honest i'm not sure if i understood at all (sorry i'm newbie about this). I'll explain me better: I'm running a forum with PR 3 but the domain name is a bit long so i think if registering a new domain name with the 3 initial letters of each word on the old domain (the old domain is a 3 words one) and then redirecting this from the Cpanel to the old one just in order to help members reaching the board on a more friendly way. What you think?, is a good deal or i'm crazy?. thanks again.-
I would not used something like that. I don't know much info about what can it cause but it doesn't sound good to me
That's why i'm asking to the DP community suggestions, i don't want to loose my actual PR on the main domain
I think that is very thoughtful in making it easy for people to type in your 3 char. site address. Its a reasonable thing to do.
I had a site I did that with for a while, and once pr updated it was fine. I would do it more for your members and potential members then worry about Google. The members are who really matter.
You can do that and you may have problems in short terms with getting organic traffic. But later it will be fine.
I don't think there would be any problem in doing that. 301 redirect is absolutely fine for Google if it is done to help users.
Just one thing to note, with a 301 redirect link juice (PR) is passed to new url ... but there might a transition period where PR is 0 on toolbar. Occasionally pages might loose couple ranking positions, but after some time they will regain their positions.