I bought my first secondary domain today and have a couple of questions: 1. How helpful are 301 redirection from domains with targeted keywords to your main domain? 2. Does the extension of the domain matter for instance would a .com be better to have than a .info 3. Should I buy out all of my targeted domains and redirect them if available? thanks in advance
-The value a redirect would have would be to forward the link credits of inbounds that now go to the other sites. But, if I read you correctly, you don't have inbounds to the other sites from any site that's independent of your own network. Google probably perceives the overly cozy relationship of these sites now, and redirecting just raises another flag.. -Well, this site will be mainly for search (since it will be an.informational site, not an interactive one). It's a topic I know a lot about and I will make it a very clean site with a good presentation. I know .info is for.information, but if the .com will do me better, I'll stick with that one. Just didn't know if it made a difference anymore. -Yes you should do.
Hi Wibblet, If I understand your first question correctly, there is no value in buying up domain names with keyword phrases in the name and redirecting them to your main site. The search engines are not keen on redirects. Not only do they not consider them a good backlink, they usually penalise for them. As for domain extensions, don't bother with anything other than .com Finally, any domain with no content and no backlinks will not rank despite having a targeted keyword in the dodmain name. The only reason to buy those domain names up is to sell them on or protect against competition. Sam
The 301 redirect is very helpful when moving to a new domain or when moving a page. I did this same exact thing as you, but I moved from a 17 letter .com name to a 5 letter .com. I moved the old site to the new domain name, setup a 301 redirect, and google picked everything up within days. And, there is no duplicate content penalty like what you might get with 2 exact sites. I highly recommend that you use a 301 when moving to a new domain name. It worked out pretty good for me.
This is NOT true. All of the search engines suggest using a 301 redirect when you move a page from URL A to URL B. Doing so gives URL B credit for all of the inbound links and link text pointing at the old URL A... and at Google at least, cause the old URL A to drop from their index once all inbound links to URL have been recrawled and the 301 redirect discovered for each of them. They do NOT penalize you for doing this. They highly suggest it. It is rumored that when you 301 redirect, you lose 1-10% of the original "link juice" or "page rank" that is passed, but other than that I have never heard of any type of penalty from redirects unless you are using them for something blackhat like cloaking. 1) Now, buying a brand new domain that just happens to have a keyword in the domain that you want your old site to rank for and 301 redirecting the new keyword rich domain is NOT going to help the old domain rank. Since the new keyword rich domain has no inbound links, 301 redirecting them to old domain will not give the old domain credit for any extra inbound links and link text. 2) The non-country specific TLD you use (.com, .net, .org, etc.) if trying to rank in Google.com has no real impact on how you rank... .com TLDs are perceived possibly by users as being more authoritative maybe so the click-thru-rate might be higher on them in the SERPs but if that .com domain is being 301 redirected, no one will ever see it in the SERPs, at least not at Google. Yahoo! seems to NOT remove 301 redirected URLs from their index. /shrug 3) I think you're wasting money, time and effort. You're better off building backlinks to your main domain. The only way it would be advantageous is if you built out complete sites on each of the new domains with unique content. But then you'll have to SEO and build backlinks to all of those sites as well... In most cases, you're better off simply spending your time and efforts on one site than trying to build some kind of link farm.
thanks all of you I figured it wasn't worth it I'll just build more backlinks to the site thanks again