My name is Adam and I am the Systems Administrator for DevNet, LLC / Adoption.Com. We currently have about 200 domain names that have been blacklisted by Google. In an attempt to fix a lot of issues here with our network, I had some questions about how Google weighs DNS. I was wondering if using the same DNS name servers for all of these domain names and then using 301 redirects to other websites in our network would be a bad idea. If so, what are some ways that we can setup our mini-net network of sites? Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it.
it would be a bad idea.....google is an official Icann registrar so the have access to all the domain information.. IMHO, you would be better off using some kind of parking service..
I don't think creating there own parking service will do them any good unless they can change there DNS. Good idea though. Are there any websites on that DNS that isn't blacklisted by Google?
I don't think google will be able to ban sites hosted on the same dns , there a lot of shared hostings out there it is impossible to separate them. I don't think the point is about Dns , do you have any other idea why they were banned ?
Adam, what I have learnt from all over the web is, that spreading your domains across multiple hosts/domain registrars/ips should help...it adds a little bit of extra work, time and cost, but in the long run, it's well worth it.
Ok, so to bring up and old post, here is the dilemma. My bosses and our SEO guy have had many discussions, meetings and what not about the issue. I have also chatted with a friend of mine that I used to do SEO with who is still doing it for himself as a business. My friend has told me that having all of these domain names on the same name servers would not be a good idea. My dilemma is this. Say that I have six blocks of IP Addresses. I create generic name servers across all six of these IP Address blocks and put the same amount of domain names on each name server. I then create 301 redirects to the websites that each domain name should be redirecting to (which they are all different websites. Some domains point to the same site and some to others). Is this the preferred way to accomplish this task? If not, what is the preferred way? Honey: I understand what you are saying and I think that is what I just spoke about above. All domain names are registered by the same domain registrar and my company has thoughts about moving any of them right now. What we originally think happened was that the last Systems Administrators all tried to put the domain names on different Class C IP Address Blocks and we think that caused the main problem. If so, then what has been suggested will not work and will cause more problems. Now then, we have thought about just parking the domain names for now until we can tell that the bans have been lifted and then create the 301 redirects. The problem with that, is that we still do not know how to accomplish the task at hand without getting penalized. Any help is appreciated. We might try giving Google a call just to see what we can come up with from one of their staff members. Thank you to all that have contributed and to those that are planning on contributing.
bogart: To be honest with you, I do not know why they have so many domain names redirecting. I inherited the issues at hand from previous Systems Administrators that claim to have "15 years experience in linux" and what not and it has been one problem after another for me. I wish I knew why there were so many but unfortunately, I do not. The only reason I could guess is to drive more traffic.