301 redirects and the big G...
 

i feel pretty out of my element here since i'm kind of new to all of this - but i have a question for some of you more seasoned internet pros.

let's say i purchases the domain: widgetsusa.com for use as the primary site name for a new business venture.

let's also assume that i purchase:

roundwidgets.com
squarewidgets.com
bluewidgets.com
redwidgets.com
bestwidgets.com
topwidgets.com
and a bunch more...

would it be possible to forward all of these domain names (i think it's called a 301 redirect???) to my primary site at widgetsusa.com without any negative repurcussions from Google?

the reason i ask is b/c i've heard of Goog "blacklisting" websites for this practice - and i'm not sure whether or not that is something that's real or not... and if it is - is there a workaround for this???

i have a project that i am currently working on in which we purchased a bunch of keyword domains in the hopes of gaining some free traffic. i would assume that b/c Goog lives to make money for it's shareholders - that they WANT everyone to have to buy clicks through their Adwords program... it would seem that it's in their best interest to force people to use Adwords.

thoughts on this???

thanks for any help you can provide a noob.

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Originally Posted by bigdipper

would it be possible to forward all of these domain names (i think it's called a 301 redirect???) to my primary site at widgetsusa.com without any negative repurcussions from Google?

It will be a good idea. If you want the exact code that needs to be put into .htaccess then let me know.

Thanks.

I think yes. As Nick said do them through Htaccess or on the server side.

I am only asking because I am not sure but if you have x amounts of domains pointing to one site and the G bot visits and indexes your site wouldn't that cause duplicate content in the index?

albertsroofing went up to a pr3 and it has about 7 301's. Same for domainsaleszone.
Shouldn't be a factor, though I wonder at times. Some of the 301's are masked, some aren't.
Don't know anything using the htacess though. What's the diff?

I really believe the 301's are only for type-in visitors anyway. Not indexed in google, supposedly.

Originally Posted by netzilla

I am only asking because I am not sure but if you have x amounts of domains pointing to one site and the G bot visits and indexes your site wouldn't that cause duplicate content in the index?

googlebot doesn't index the forwarding domain because it is a user-agent. no duplicate content issues.

Nice way to put it shockie. :bingo: Wish I had said that! :cry:

You may get a PR boost by that but I think it'll hurt your SERP rankings in the long run. That wouldn't seem "natural" to Googlebot and your site may get penalized for it. If PR is all you care about then go ahead and try it. If you care about rankings then don't do it.

Higher PR does NOT necessarily mean better rankings.

Not a great idea, your best bet is host those domains on separate ips and create some decent content on them and link in to your main site.