Re: Using multiple domain names

there's this guy in my company that I refer to as 'the boss'. He is
not concerned about my headaches. I appreciate your skepticism but
until the day when I can be freed of the need to report to my
corporate cubicle, I have to answer to 'the boss' and his requests.
we have domain names that are currently unused. the question remains:
Are there advantages to having multiple domain names that point to a
single site or not?

Joe Blower <motiv8x{AT}top25web.com> wrote

Slim wrote:

are there any advantages (or disadvantages) to having multiple domain
names that ultimately point to a single site through either a page
redirect or server redirect?
thanks in advance...

you get more of headache maintaining them.
why don't you concentrate on building a legitimate site's traffic,
rather than putting the same crud on other domains?

Slim wrote:

Joe Blower <motiv8x{AT}top25web.com> wrote in message
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Slim wrote:

are there any advantages (or disadvantages) to having multiple
domain names that ultimately point to a single site through either
a page redirect or server redirect?
thanks in advance...

you get more of headache maintaining them.
why don't you concentrate on building a legitimate site's traffic,
rather than putting the same crud on other domains?

there's this guy in my company that I refer to as 'the boss'. He is
not concerned about my headaches. I appreciate your skepticism but
until the day when I can be freed of the need to report to my
corporate cubicle, I have to answer to 'the boss' and his requests.
we have domain names that are currently unused. the question remains:
Are there advantages to having multiple domain names that point to a
single site or not?

Bosses, eh? I started my own business, 20 years ago now, because every boss
I'd ever worked for was a complete idiot. I decided than that the next
complete idiot that I worked for would be me - and I was right.

Anyway, "No" is the simple answer. I'm afraid that the more complex answer
is a set of questions - ask the boss what benefits he thinks he can get out
of having several domains.

Does he see this strategy employed by any of the major sites?

Would it be useful to have 20 different postal addresses for head office?

Since the site URL is - in some ways - analogous to a brand, would he
consider it useful to market the current products under several different
brands or would he think it better to concentrate on raising the profile of
a single brand name?

Has he read the Google guidelines?
- "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially
duplicate content.
- Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie
cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original
content."
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Best of luck.

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PeterMcC wrote:

Slim wrote:
Joe Blower <motiv8x{AT}top25web.com> wrote in message
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Slim wrote:

are there any advantages (or disadvantages) to having multiple
domain names that ultimately point to a single site through either
a page redirect or server redirect?
thanks in advance...

you get more of headache maintaining them.
why don't you concentrate on building a legitimate site's traffic,
rather than putting the same crud on other domains?

there's this guy in my company that I refer to as 'the boss'. He is
not concerned about my headaches. I appreciate your skepticism but
until the day when I can be freed of the need to report to my
corporate cubicle, I have to answer to 'the boss' and his requests.
we have domain names that are currently unused. the question
remains: Are there advantages to having multiple domain names that
point to a single site or not?

Bosses, eh? I started my own business, 20 years ago now, because
every boss I'd ever worked for was a complete idiot. I decided than
that the next complete idiot that I worked for would be me - and I
was right.

Anyway, "No" is the simple answer.

OTOH - see the "multiple domains for one site" thread currently running. It
runs counter to my experience but...

--
PeterMcC
If you feel that any of the above is incorrect,
inappropriate or offensive in any way,
please ignore it and accept my apologies.

actually, the acquisition of several domains took place, I believe,
when the company didn't quite know under which name it would operate.
that was before my time. so now, years later, we still have these
other domains. I don't think the idea was to get a shadow domain
strategy but to just make use of a past purchase.
I am curious about what constitutes a 'shadow domain' though. would
it really be considered spamming if there were legitimate content on
each of the separate domains?

Many thanks for your responses. I'm learning tons from this group and
really appreciate the insights. maybe someday I'll learn enough to be
my own idiot boss

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:23:30 +0100, "T.J." <no1 (AT) home (DOT) invalid> wrote:

"Big Bill" <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
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On 1 Jul 2003 08:56:27 -0700, slimatwork (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (Slim) wrote:

there's this guy in my company that I refer to as 'the boss'. He is
not concerned about my headaches. I appreciate your skepticism but
until the day when I can be freed of the need to report to my
corporate cubicle, I have to answer to 'the boss' and his requests.
we have domain names that are currently unused. the question remains:
Are there advantages to having multiple domain names that point to a
single site or not?

No. You'll quite likely get done for spamming. you need different
content for each domain to avoid this, which kind of negates the
purpose for which I suspect you've acquired your several domains.

BB

I deal in a number of similar, related products and have URL's for
each. Obviously they all link to each other and some have the
same products on numerous URL's
Is this likely to be considered spamming by the search engines?

Assuming that the majority of content is different for each domain
then I wouldn't expect you to have a problem. I think what would be
regarded as spamming is if you have the same page under several
domains. Different domain, different content.

BB
MFW Britpack www.extreme-positioning.co.uk
There is only one war, and it's not the rich against the poor,
the blacks against the whites, the Federation against the Borg,
or the Democrats versus the Republicans. It's those of us who
aren't complete idiots against those of us who are.

On 1 Jul 2003 14:54:37 -0700, slimatwork (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (Slim) wrote:

actually, the acquisition of several domains took place, I believe,
when the company didn't quite know under which name it would operate.
that was before my time. so now, years later, we still have these
other domains. I don't think the idea was to get a shadow domain
strategy but to just make use of a past purchase.
I am curious about what constitutes a 'shadow domain' though. would
it really be considered spamming if there were legitimate content on
each of the separate domains?

No.

BB

Many thanks for your responses. I'm learning tons from this group and
really appreciate the insights. maybe someday I'll learn enough to be
my own idiot boss

MFW Britpack www.extreme-positioning.co.uk
There is only one war, and it's not the rich against the poor,
the blacks against the whites, the Federation against the Borg,
or the Democrats versus the Republicans. It's those of us who
aren't complete idiots against those of us who are.

Slim wrote:

there's this guy in my company that I refer to as 'the boss'. He is
not concerned about my headaches. I appreciate your skepticism but
until the day when I can be freed of the need to report to my
corporate cubicle, I have to answer to 'the boss' and his requests.

I know my boss is the same guy I think. ;-)
I was hoping you were the "genius" who came up with the idea of parking
domains to get into search engines.

we have domain names that are currently unused. the question remains:
Are there advantages to having multiple domain names that point to a
single site or not?

When you simply park a domain, google will recognize it as being the
exact same site as another. It shouldn't hurt your rankings, but only 1
domain will actually get ranked, the others will only show up with 1
result in google.

Joe Blower <motiv8x{AT}top25web.com> wrote


Slim wrote:


are there any advantages (or disadvantages) to having multiple domain
names that ultimately point to a single site through either a page
redirect or server redirect?
thanks in advance...

you get more of headache maintaining them.
why don't you concentrate on building a legitimate site's traffic,
rather than putting the same crud on other domains?

--

Motiv8x
Top25Web.com: Ranking Report & Search Engine Forums
http://www.top25web.com

T.J. wrote:

"Big Bill" <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
news:g1l3gv8im11717q2jg896mcv48um066r0f (AT) 4ax (DOT) com...

On 1 Jul 2003 08:56:27 -0700, slimatwork (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (Slim) wrote:


there's this guy in my company that I refer to as 'the boss'. He is
not concerned about my headaches. I appreciate your skepticism but
until the day when I can be freed of the need to report to my
corporate cubicle, I have to answer to 'the boss' and his requests.
we have domain names that are currently unused. the question remains:
Are there advantages to having multiple domain names that point to a
single site or not?

No. You'll quite likely get done for spamming. you need different
content for each domain to avoid this, which kind of negates the
purpose for which I suspect you've acquired your several domains.

BB


I deal in a number of similar, related products and have URL's for
each. Obviously they all link to each other and some have the
same products on numerous URL's
Is this likely to be considered spamming by the search engines?

I doubt it, depends on the sites, why don't you post the urls.


--

Motiv8x
Top25Web.com: Ranking Report & Search Engine Forums
http://www.top25web.com

T.J. wrote:

I deal in a number of similar, related products and have URL's for
each. Obviously they all link to each other and some have the
same products on numerous URL's
Is this likely to be considered spamming by the search engines?




I doubt it, depends on the sites, why don't you post the urls

I sell wheelchair access ramps in the UK, my main site is
www.wheelchair-ramps.co.uk
I am also branching into disabled access lifts, and have a secondry site
www.wheelchair-ramps-lifts.co.uk
I also have my company name as a url
www.accessappraisals.co.uk
and also offer an access consultants service with
www.accessconsultants.co.uk
Plus a few other related sites

Most of the sites have simmilar info on them, and links to each other.
I see nothing wrong with what I am doing, but after reading a few
threads here, are getting a little worried in case I am seen as spamming
by the search engines.
The accessappraisals site is simply a feeder site, but as it is my company
name I feel it is important to have it as a URL.
Opinions on what I am doing would be appreciated.