Several Domain Names Pointed at One Site?

[YouGotMyMoney]

I agree and understand YGMMoney's backlink argument but that's not what you are doing here.

I apologize, I misread his question then.

re: backlinks, I don't see how google is going to rely on content.....

unless the site with the most relevant content wins, but then I'd just spin everyone else's content have have 10k pages.....

 

[Aaron_4SIGHT]

Here's my video on this...

 

[valdet]

Yes, that's what I thought you meant... having multiple domains and have them all end up at your main site/domain.

Unless you put some good content on each of these 3 new domains, I'm not sure how it will help you get a better SEO ranking nor how people are going to find the domains in the first place.

That is correct.

Having the other domains pointed to your main website is only used for type-in traffic, which is hard to achieve unless you have an easy/catchable domain name which is easy to remember and typed in directly on browser bar.

If you have the domain iwantpeoplesearchingforcontractorsinsuranceinvirginia.com and want to 301 redirect traffic to your main site you will get no type in traffic at all and that is not a wise idea, as you would just spend money on that domain. Better put some content and once you build some credibility, you may link to your main site.

Here's a brilliant post from Alston about domain names.

Val.

 

[dmiller90]

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Best practices for running multiple sites

 

[Term Life Guy]

As stated by valdet, the main reason to have multiple domains pointing to yours is if the domain name is something a visitor might accidentally type into the URL bar....

Example: you own hotdog.com, but your company name is DwaynesHotDogs, and DwaynesHotDogs.com is the website where you have your content. In this situation the redirect from hotdog.com to DwaynesHotDogs.com will probably get you a ton of traffic because people will type hotdog in the URL bar and end up at your site, even though they have no idea who you are.

In the situation above, Google will never show hotdog.com in their search results because there is nothing at that location but a redirect to another site. If you put separate content up on hotdog.com then Google may start to show it in results.

Another common reason to have multiple domains is if you are actively marketing different domains. For example, on your business card you may show DwaynesHotDogs.com, but in commercials or on flyers you may show hotdog.com because it's easier for people to remember.

Hope that helps.

 

[Alston]

As stated by valdet, the main reason to have multiple domains pointing to yours is if the domain name is something a visitor might accidentally type into the URL bar....

Example: you own hotdog.com, but your company name is DwaynesHotDogs, and DwaynesHotDogs.com is the website where you have your content. In this situation the redirect from hotdog.com to DwaynesHotDogs.com will probably get you a ton of traffic because people will type hotdog in the URL bar and end up at your site, even though they have no idea who you are.

In the situation above, Google will never show hotdog.com in their search results because there is nothing at that location but a redirect to another site. If you put separate content up on hotdog.com then Google may start to show it in results.

Another common reason to have multiple domains is if you are actively marketing different domains. For example, on your business card you may show DwaynesHotDogs.com, but in commercials or on flyers you may show hotdog.com because it's easier for people to remember.

Hope that helps.

As a vegan, I felt impelled to change the above example slightly. LOL.

One strategy would be to make Carrots.com a one-page-site with unique body text, but with the same colors, logo and other design elements as DwaynesCarrots.com.

This way when someone clicks on what they think is a link to an interior page of Carrots.com most won't notice that they have been redirected to DwaynesCarrots.com.

You can do a little link building for Carrots.com and get a little SEO benefit as well. However, if all the links from Carrots.com point to DwayneCarrots.com, Google will view it almost as if it was a page on the domain DwaynesCarrots.com.

 

[Aaron_4SIGHT]

The latest SEOmoz data shows that the importance of having keywords in a domain name has dropped significantly in the last 12 months. If you're buying domains specifically for SEO, you might want to rethink your strategy.