Rursepledlend
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I checked Google Webmaster tools and didn't find an answer to my question. I then checked the Google Webmaster forum and found conflicting information. I did a search on the V7N SEO forum and wanted to verify what I believe are the answers to my questions.
I have a client (hair salon) who's website is up and indexed by Google. She's getting good SEO results for a number of the pages, except for the home page. She's considering purchasing several domain names that contain the keyword phrase "hair salon" and pointing the domains back to the original site. The original domain name does not have the phrase "hair salon" in it and she's hoping that using these other domain names will help boost her page rank when someone uses that phrase in the search box.
1) Can she have multiple domain names point to the same set of files on a server?
2) If not, do I handle these through a 301 redirect to the original domain name (which doesn't have the phrase "hair salon" in it)?
3) Would doing either of the above incur penalties from the search engines?
4) Would doing either of the above actually improve her rankings - in other words, is it worth it?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Deb Yeah, the answer is no, you can't use multiple domain names to point to a same website
However, she could use another domain name, then transfer all of the content to this new domain name, lastly, do a 301 redirect and in Webmaster central transfer the site.
This will help solve your problem. If she chooses to do this, you absolutely want to use a 301 permanent redirect rather than just "pointing" the extra domains to the site. I would limit the number of domains. Do I see any value in it? Virtually none. Occasionally I will do this, but more so to make up for people making a mistake for my domain, such as owning both gncwebcreations.com and gnc-web-creations.com and redirecting (301) one to the other.
Tell your client their are better ways to spend their time and money. If you simply host or point the domain to the same place in server. Then that would be regarded as a case of duplicate contents and also Spam by google.
You can do 301 redirection.But dont do this in a lot of domain. Just get a good domain and do 301 redirection on it. If you do 301 redirection on a lot of domain that would also be regarded as spam by google. If you do this use 301 redirects as the method as that will help with the seo issue Quote: Originally Posted by Cricket
If she chooses to do this, you absolutely want to use a 301 permanent redirect rather than just "pointing" the extra domains to the site. I would limit the number of domains. Do I see any value in it? Virtually none. Occasionally I will do this, but more so to make up for people making a mistake for my domain, such as owning both gncwebcreations.com and gnc-web-creations.com and redirecting (301) one to the other.
Tell your client their are better ways to spend their time and money. The better way out to use a 301 redirect - rather than having 4 actual copies of your site all competing with each other, a 301 redirect seamlessly redirects to the
I have a client (hair salon) who's website is up and indexed by Google. She's getting good SEO results for a number of the pages, except for the home page. She's considering purchasing several domain names that contain the keyword phrase "hair salon" and pointing the domains back to the original site. The original domain name does not have the phrase "hair salon" in it and she's hoping that using these other domain names will help boost her page rank when someone uses that phrase in the search box.
1) Can she have multiple domain names point to the same set of files on a server?
2) If not, do I handle these through a 301 redirect to the original domain name (which doesn't have the phrase "hair salon" in it)?
3) Would doing either of the above incur penalties from the search engines?
4) Would doing either of the above actually improve her rankings - in other words, is it worth it?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Deb Yeah, the answer is no, you can't use multiple domain names to point to a same website
However, she could use another domain name, then transfer all of the content to this new domain name, lastly, do a 301 redirect and in Webmaster central transfer the site.
This will help solve your problem. If she chooses to do this, you absolutely want to use a 301 permanent redirect rather than just "pointing" the extra domains to the site. I would limit the number of domains. Do I see any value in it? Virtually none. Occasionally I will do this, but more so to make up for people making a mistake for my domain, such as owning both gncwebcreations.com and gnc-web-creations.com and redirecting (301) one to the other.
Tell your client their are better ways to spend their time and money. If you simply host or point the domain to the same place in server. Then that would be regarded as a case of duplicate contents and also Spam by google.
You can do 301 redirection.But dont do this in a lot of domain. Just get a good domain and do 301 redirection on it. If you do 301 redirection on a lot of domain that would also be regarded as spam by google. If you do this use 301 redirects as the method as that will help with the seo issue Quote: Originally Posted by Cricket
If she chooses to do this, you absolutely want to use a 301 permanent redirect rather than just "pointing" the extra domains to the site. I would limit the number of domains. Do I see any value in it? Virtually none. Occasionally I will do this, but more so to make up for people making a mistake for my domain, such as owning both gncwebcreations.com and gnc-web-creations.com and redirecting (301) one to the other.Tell your client their are better ways to spend their time and money. The better way out to use a 301 redirect - rather than having 4 actual copies of your site all competing with each other, a 301 redirect seamlessly redirects to the