Hi all, I have a lot(15-20) of keyword-heavy domains (mostly .info's, two .eu's) registered for SEO on a new business venture. It is a VPN service like relakks.com. I want to know what is the best way to use these domains for SEO. Should I use a 301 permament redirect to my main domain, or set up a blog on each domain and provide a backlink to my main domain? Basically I want to have the most weight possible behind these domains. I have time to invest, as well as money, building up each domain, but that said, not excessive amounts of time. I would like to spend a few hours a day for the first week setting up the blogs, and then a few hours a week thereafter maintaining them. Would it be beneficial to host blogs on them, or should I stick with my initial plan of using them as 301's? Info that may be useful: They're currently hosted on the same server This server is different to my main domains server They have whois privacy They're registered for one year Thanks =] ~Diarmaid
I would go the blog route that way you can build up each one of them separately and use their rankings through links back to build up your main sites ranking and also to bring customers in. I would also try to move each one to separate host with separate IP's if possible.
301 them. Unless you have the domains on different servers and registered to different "owners" a cursory WHOIS check will likely get your main site penalized and the other sites banned. Remember, Google IS a domain registrar, so it has the same information that NetSol and the other registrars have.
Dan - given what he's trying to do why would you feel a 301 redirect would be the most beneficial? Just curious because I'm on the opposite side. If he gets them on separate hosts with separate IP's and gives them each unique content, not doorway pages but true sites within a complimentary niche. Then has those sites give useful links pointing back to his main site wouldn't that be more in line with what he is trying to accomplish?
Assuming the sites are on separate servers with separate C class IP addresses that are registered to "different owners" and have unique content that are related to each other, then I'd consider linking them together if I was the risk-taking type, but not excessively. What you'd probably have to do is launder those links through other sites (likely a few times) and then link them back to the original. And that's on top of developing and promoting each of those other domains as well in addition to the primary one. In other words, it's just not worth it.
See, I'm just not completely convinced that worrying about Google as a Registrar is a big deal for the average webmaster with 3 or 4 sites. I'd be more worried about it if I was a Spammer with 100's of sites. I mean devshed interlinks their sites and even uses the same servers NS8.US.SITEPROTECT.COM & NS9.US.SITEPROTECT.COM for all their sites and they seem to do just fine. I would think build up the sites on the cheap with some article & directory submission going for long tail searches in the target niches then using relevant blog posts link back to the main site a few times without the main site linking back. For example: C links to A B links to A A links to neither B or C See I'm just not seeing it. I would rather build up the domains that are under my control to help build up my main site.
yes Wind Rider you are right, your website can get penalized if google found so many website redirection to a particular website and the same are hosted on the same server.
Well, I have about 15 domains, and I was planning on hosting them globally on cheap servers, so the IPs would not be a problem. I have whois privacy on each domain, using Domains By Proxy. Would google still be able to uncover who owns the domains? I thought that because it was proxied, it remained proxied. I don't think content would be a problem, each domain will be focusing on a similar niche, but all domains will have their content changed - ie, i might write one article on, for example, the Chinese govt. blocking certain websites, but then pass it through a content changer to have a different 'article', and post this to a certain amount of blogs, say, 3, at different times. Also, the domains will not interlink but will link to my main website. They will reply on their own backlinks to get pagerank.
Yes, Google would still know who owns the domains - they are a domain registrar afterall and have access to the WHOIS database. It also sounds like you may be (unintentionally) engaging in laundering links and PageRank - something that could get you in a lot of hot water if you're "found out".
The domains have not seen the light of day yet - I have not gotten backlinks nor submitted them to google. If I change the whois infomation to be under fake names - against TOS, I know, but I'd keep a track on the email addresses for abuse complaints - would it then be possible to use them to link back? Perhaps I should I just set up random blogspot's under longtail keywords, keep them updated, and link them back to my .info's and my main .com?
do a 301 redirect for most of them. for a few you could setup blogs and link back to your sites. However, assuming all your domains are new and not indexed in google it wouldn't make much difference for your site anyways. Therefore, if you want to increase linkbacks then do so through link exchanges and others. You could also try doing 3 way link exchanges since you have so many domains handy. However, having all of them linking to your main site would be really bad idea. It would be considered spamming and google will ban your site.