Over the time, I bought few domains on the subject I planned to create a website. Now I will be using only one domain from some odd 10s of domain. Is it good or bad to point remaining all domains to the one domain I will be using?
Just in case? In case of what a fire?! You can redirect 10,000 domains to one domain if you want, it will have zero effect seo weight wise most likely. Would cost more to renew them yearly then you would earn from doing it.
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You could have said it in a normal way instead of insulting and bugging me. Also since you are such an "helpful and righteous" member why don't you provide fact as to where you have the info from and proove me wrong. I don't know for certain it it can have a negative impact if many domains linked to 1 single domain, what i do know is that he can redirect 10 domains without problem, for all else i was just being causius and don't want to make statements on something i'm not certain about!
That bothers you? Wow, I'm apologize for hurting your feelings. Basic information related to redirecting domain names, 2 from outer Google sources, 2 inner, enjoy your picnic. http://www.highrankings.com/issue060.htm#seo http://www.theinternetdigest.net/archive/301-redirects-seo.html http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-discussing-302-redirects/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/
Hi guys, 1) (and im saying this worrying about being 'reported') SLICKR - Chill out for g*ds sake, its a forum, he didnt abuse you, I had to re-read his post about 4 times to work out what bit insulted you. and Im still not 100% sure. 2) I can assure you sagar that there is no problem with setting up the other 10 domains as redirects, although you may be a lot better off just sitting them on a free webhosting service somewhere, installing wordpress and a few context sensitive articles on each, then linking to your main domain. This way you will get clicks that wouldnt have otherwise come through, AND be getting the extra linkjuice! good luck! MOG
Why do not you build one page for each domain name(not duplicate)...and link from them to your main page... If you can get a couple link backs to each of those sites, they will help your SEO work.. You can slowly add new pages to those domains and get more benefit out of them Thanks
You can use multiple domains, just don't run content on them. I know of a case when the same site was hosted on the same server under 2 domains, no redirects no nothing. Now the owner lost most of his pages in google (we did some redirects to remove 1 domain), so it surely is a penalty.
pointing domains with 30X codes is fine and will have no bearing.. duplicating the same site accross all domains will have major negative effect
A lot of companies use different marketing approaches for the exact same product. They may targer various demographics of potential customers to gain the most overall customer base. The reason they do this is because a product may not appeal to all people the same way. Some people like cheap prices while others prefer higher quality. Granted this may fall within the same product, but they don't each see that by viewing the same marketing materials. In the realm of domains they use it to catch gernal searches from customers. For example if customer 1 typed in "cheap airline tickets" in their url bar, the first thing the browser will do is try to pull up a URL cheapairlinetickets.com, and if it doesn't exist it will try .net and .org. If those don't exist then it will just load MSN Search with results for cheap ariline tickets. Another customer may try to pull up "first class airline tickets" just using the URL. This is primarily AOL's fault I think. That ease of use left over from AOL browser dominance during the days of dialup. It comes from the Find it with AOL keyword "blah". Anywho... moving along. This was a good thing of it trying to pull up a website, but then you have competitors trying to steal your traffic this way. cheapairlinetickets.com and reallycheapairlinetickets.com has to fight each other for keyword traffic. So naturally any company that has a substantial budget will go out and register multiple domains and multiple TLD's of a domain to catch the most natural search traffic. So you may have cheapairlinetickets.com and reallycheapairlinetickets.com and firstclassairlinetickets.com all pointing to the same domain travelocity.com. Comanie like walmart and bestbuy and many other companies I am sure have a multitude of domains redirecting to their main domain to drive traffic that will convert into sales. As for putting the same content on multiple sites, this is a very bad mistake to make. Google loves original, unique content. If you put something on the web that is on the web in 10,000 other places, most of which probably have older domains and a larger amount of content, then your site will be of a lower quality in Google's eyes. If you do this a few times, then you probably will just suffer in ranking. If you do this repetitively and consistently, then Google may view it as search engine spam. Your best bet is to use the registrar's forwarding and masking features. Just forward if you want to drive traffic. Mask the domain if you want people to think they are actually at the site they typed in. Something I may have found with one of my sites was it will get indexed by both domains. If you forward one domain to the other, you will get indexed by both paths. If you are still unsure about this then instead of listening to what people say on a forum who may or may not know what they are talking about, myself included, then contact google's support via email. They should be able to answer your question accurately.
Where did you read this? Post a link to where you got that information. I was under the impression that Google did not penalize for this unless you were trying to deceive the customer into believing they were going to one location, but being sent to another. Ex: having deltaairlinetickets.com redirect to southwesterairlinetickets.com.
There is no problem with redirecting. I suggest you add some content on all sites by extracting data (something like RSS) from your main site and place it like: Most recent news: bla, bla, bla [read more] And do something like a feed. This is one of my opinions. The other one is use 301 redirects, it is also good for domain name SEO, depending on your domain names, of course (i.e. whether they contain your desired keywords or not).