Re: Using multiple domain names

slimatwork (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (Slim) wrote in message news:<f3bcfb98.0306300753.7ecbe9f0 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>...

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...

If you activate additional domains don't set the additional content on
them, just have them 301 redirect to the "real" domain.

A good example is The New York Times:

http://www.nyt.com/
http://www.newyorktimes.com/

both redirect to:

http://www.nytimes.com/

If your company owns:

www.samplecompany.com and www.sampleco.com, use "co" as your real
domain, but keep "company" working for the people who "guess" domains
- and there are a lot of them, believe me.

301 redirects are easy to activate and basically don't cost anything -
so if your "boss" wants to continue to pay for X, Y and Z.com you
might as well get them online.

But making duplicate domains is risky, and foolish. Google understands
that the 301 redirect means "moved permanently" and will assign any
links to it to the "real" domain. Having clones of the same domain is
the fastest way to be the next poster in the "My site disappeared from
google" thread.

kind regards -

patrick deese
www.electrondesign.com