Hello All, I'm discovering more and more of my clients are guilty of domain spamming, even before they know what the term means. They buy relevant domain names, and since they don't have the budget/manpower to build sites for each domain, they point all domains to their one live site as a matter of convenience. A few months later I get the call that traffic is dying and they need help. Two questions... 1. How to identify domain spamming as THE issue? With some sites I discover Google PageRanking is split between two or more sites. The "contactus.html" page has a ranking of 3 on one domain, and 0 on another. That seems to indicate that Google has spidered both, and indexed some pages for one domain, and other pages for another domain. A Are there any other indicators that a domain is tagged as domain spamming??? I have a client that seems to have PR's for all pages in the correct domain, but other domains are pointing to it, and he's suffering from a dramatic loss of traffic. I don't want to rule out domain spamming since it will affect any attempts to SEO the site in any other way, if it is an issue. Often the client's primary site is well-established and part of the company's brand, so they don't want to close the domain and move the site to another domain. And I can't blame them for that. 2. So... how do we correct that issue? In the past, I've just "followed the rules"...turn off the domain pointers. In other cases we go a step further and move the account from domain pointer to hosting, set up a one-page website, and use htaccess to 301 redirect the old pages to the primary domain. And either Yahoo hasn't fixed their 301 issues, or they're slow as molasses in recognizing the 301. Google and MSN do a better job with that. In all cases it's a slow, slow process. Is there anything else we can do to expedite the now clean domain to help it return to previous rankings in SERPS? On one site that suffers from yahoo's slow response, I'm considering recreating pages with the same file names and using meta-redirects in an attempt to push Yahoo to make the correction. But will that work? Google and MSN have already both recognized the 301, so I'm not concerned that those spiders will ID a meta-redirect and tag it as spam. But will Yahoo wake up with a meta redirect or ID it as spam? Is there anything else I can do when I'm stuck with a domain that was tagged for spamming? thanks! Jerry
I don't think this is really classed as spamming. The correct way to forward one domain to another is to set up domain forwarding in your registrar account. Make sure there is no frameset or domain masking set up and you will be fine.
actually 75% of them will buy domains wantedly just for domain reselling biz and they park them or rredirect them. so people who buy without knowing are very less. This is very big probe in online biz , all good domains are blocked and are parked.god knows how to control them
I'm not sure I would call it spamming if they just forward a bunch of domains at the registrar level to the correct site. I do this often for something I think will build a brand and to get type in traffic. Instead of having identical sites listed for mispelled domains, or other TLDs such as NET, INFO, ORG etc, I'll forward them to the COM site. Now if you publish material to that domain and use it as a doorway that's another issue, but if your not out there promoting the other domains and it should have no links I don't see a problem.
That isn't domain spamming, it's just parking a domain. I would redirect it to the main domain as well. Lots of large comapnies do this as well.
Gotcha. No, they're currently using 302 redirects, no framesets (and isn't "domain masking" another way of saying frameset?). I'll look for other reasons why this new client is losing ground. Thanks for your help.