Hello friends, Is it good for SEO to buy and redirect multiple domains to the main domain. I thought it is is good but found a contradictory answer on http://www.searchenginecollege.com/2006/10/q-and-could-purchasing-and-redirecting.html please help to clear the confusion. thanks & regards Shailendra
yeah excess of everything is bad but what's the limit if being excess. many people employ this technique but how to know the limit. some say that is good thing to do and on the other hand search engine college says that it is not good? i am utterly confused.
I have a similar question. Does multiple domain redirection help in SEO? Will it harm or help the current ranking of the site? What if we redirect the other domains using 301 redirect?
Multiple domain redirect to the main domain is an unethical SEO and it won't help you anyway. Google always suggest a redirection for xyz.com to www.xyz.com and they never suggest a redirection for www.abc.com to www.xyz.com
May I suggest something. Have multiple Domains, have small sites hosted on them with good content related to your service. For example you are a tution class and running various courses like Maths, Science, Geography etc. So your Main site say mytutionclass.com will have full content for all of the subjects. have another domain say matchclasses.com and there you elaborate detailed content on match. same for scienceclass.com site and for other subjects. Now you have one main site and few other small but relative sites. use the relative small sites to build links for main site. 3-way links using small sites will build strong base for your main site main keywords. I hope you understand the formula. And this is ethical.
From a pure SEO perspective, there can be benefits to having multiple secondary domains that point to a single primary domain, but only if those other secondary domains have backlinks and are relevant to the primary domain. If you previously maintained 10 domains, all about car maintenance... each with say 100 backlinks... then picking one as your primary domain and 301 redirecting all pages on the other 9 to the equivalent pages on the primary domain whose content most closely represent the secondary sites pages (one-to-one mapping of old secondary URL to primary sites URL), you can get big SEO gains. The primary site's domains will get credit for all 10 site's inbounds which in most cases will increase your rankings (assuming the link text used to link to the old secondary domains is relevant to the page you redirect them to on the primary domain). However, if you have 10 sites about 10 different topics and redirect 9 of them to a single site, you really get no benefit other than possibly boosting the PR of your primary domain. It's a terrible user experience as well and if Google finds out, they'll likely just devalue all inbounds to your primary domain from your secondary domain and you won't get any benefit, not even a PR boost. There ARE, however, non-SEO benefits to having multiple domains as well. We own about 500 domain names that are common misspellings of our primary domain name. We get a substantial amount of traffic from these. You'd be surprised at how people can't spell or type. And it keeps unscrupulous webmasters from buying the misspelled domains to steal traffic and canabilizing our brand.