Multiple domains pointed at one site
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I know things are changing and the things Google thinks are cheating searchers from finding what they are really looking for are changing too.
So, I have multiple domain names that are related to my site, but not the actual site name.
For instance, I have a certification program called Certified NetAnalyst that has a few domains for it... .com, .org and other derivatives like NetAnalyst. I would like to point the domains to my main company web site and not create a site just for the certification.
Does Google think it is cheating to point domain names with my company branding names to my main web site?
What about domain name forwarding to a specific URL, like taking the certification name domains and pointing them to the certification page instead of the main site?
Wondering if one could no follow (don't know how to do that) the domain forwarding links so it is not duplicate content? Is that possible in some way?
Could you put another robots.txt file with excludes in the domain forwarding url landing page so it would not be duplicate content?
For the future I want all SEO "juice" to go to the main domain, but the keyword value of the domain names is valuable.
I sure would be grateful if someone that has a good understanding and specific recent experience with Google policy and enforcement could offer some sage and practical advice and perhaps a case study example where Google "likes it" or on the other hand a good explanation of why I may not wish to do this!
Thank You!
Bill Alderson www.apalytics.com
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Hi Bill,
This tactic used to be a favorite one for the SEO guys but now it has faded. Matt Cutts, in one of the Google Webmaster Central videos said that doing such arrangement has no problem with Google but doing it on a very large scale may attract the attention of his team who continuously fight with spam.
I personally suggest that it should be done only:
- if you are big business house and believe that name squatting could pose danger to your business.
- Buying and redirecting the different generic TLD of your main domain is fine. E.g. I own mysite.com then it's okay for me to buy mysite.org also and redirect it to the .com version.
Simply buying number of business related domains and redirecting them to the main domain does not helps.
Regards,
Shailendra Sial
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