Hello was not sure of a spot for this was but I hope I come do the correct spot. Your new system I really don't like as I am old and the letters for your forum list are too small, also do you really need a captcha on a post little overboard don't you think. I will say you all have great advice My Question is I run a forum based web site for a state Example mysite.com I also own all other domains for the site net org info to get better placement I purchased for example newjerseyforums.com think that when someone typed New Jersey forums my site will come up. I then did a 301 redirect which I was not sure if it was the best as my competitors website comes up even when I type the full address in the Google search http://newjerseyforums.com my competitors web site will show. I was just wondering what could I do to get when folks search for New Jersey Forms that my site will at least show. I hope you understand what I'm trying to do as I was not sure if it was better to just build another site for new jersey forms with links to the main site as the 301 redirect is just not working as planned. The Names used in this post are for Example purposes Thanks
can you let us know what 301 redirect code did you put I think you have you your competitor's web address in your 301 redirect.
I used A permanent redirect from the server added to the .htaccess file RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^newjerseyforums.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.newjerseyforums.com$ RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mysite\.com" [R=301,L] example name when I search for my site newjerseyforums.com my competitors web sites comes up
If it doesn't show at all, then it looks like Google hasn't indexed your forum. Get some backlinks to it.
if you have multiple domains, make 301 is the last way. The best way is create a site for each of your domains. for example, if .com is the main site. you can use .net at wordpress make a blog use your .info at shoutem make a social network etc etc