Hi there ! We have a main site which describes the services we offer (foreign languages courses). Our keywors are: english courses, german courses and so on... We've also bought some other domains like language-X.TLD, language-Y.TLD etc. At the moment there is no website for the other domains (except the main one). The users are redirected (using .htaccess) to the main domain if they visit another domain like language-X.TLD for example. I don't know exactly what is the best solution to get some positive results relating Google SEO using the other domains. I think this redirection gets no benefits. Would it be ok If we build just 1-2-3 optimized pages that describe that language for every domain or there is another better possibility? We don't have at the moment the resources the build a whole web site for every domain. Thank you. ddaas
Unless you do have resources to build a site on the domain, you are probably better off just focusing on your main domain. Even after building a site on each domain, you would have to do some marketing for each one. All of that effort would be more beneficial if put towards getting more links for your main domain. Also if you were to build up a site on each domain you would have to be very careful as to how you cross link them. Too much cross linking between your own websites and the search engines could ban you.
I agree with Vansterdam. There can be value in the 301 domain that has been established with content but more along the lines of acquiring another site and re-directing it. Trying to do it from scratch will divert too much of your time and resources. You'll get more mileage from adding a blog and posting valuable contest with backlinks.
I think you should go ahead and build small websites around those domains, it will do much more than if they are just redirected (because Google won't index them), specially if keywords are part of their domain name. As long as the keywords are part of your domain and you have properly optimized your pages, you won't need to go crazy with off-site SEO for each website. You can build a simple, 2-4 page template, were you would only change images, content, headings, etc... very simple and quick. I personally use a header.php , body.php and footer.php having all pertinent tags filled with simple to edit variables located before calling the header, thus making it re-usable. BTW, don't create a network of cross linked websites.
It would work if you build those sites, but you have to put some time and serious work there, quality related backlinks are very important too. You shouldn't copy the content from your main site, make a new one...
Link building is time intensive, so you're better off just focusing on your main domain and ranking different pages for different keywords.
As far as I know Google doesn't like parked domain, domain forwarding etc. Use only 1 domain under which your website has been uploaded to hosting server!