Should you use a "stealth" redirect for parking?

[hiweb]

Hi all,

I just wanted to know what the pros and cons are for "stealth" redirection as a way of parking domain.

Does "stealth" redirection (also known as "masked" or "framed") allow you to add your own title, meta information to your parked pages?

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated

 

[cache]

it is not good to mask, it will not help your ranking.

 

[hiweb]

Thanks for the info

Does anyone else have an opinion on the question?

 

[Dannoth]

I dont like them, in fact, when a website has one, I usually try to find out the original URL and view the site with the original URL.

 

[fonzie_007]

I dont like them, in fact, when a website has one, I usually try to find out the original URL and view the site with the original URL.

I do exactly the same thing. I am unsure what people feel to be the benefits of masking. I prefer just forwarding traffic from one domain to the other.

 

[edwinfelix]

With stealth, you can do SEO from within <noframe></noframe> This may get you banned though - By Google or by your parking service.

 

[cache]

here some old threads:

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/143623-is-masked-domain-forwarding-bad-thing.html

http://www.namepros.com/domain-newbies/154373-masked-url-forwarding.html

 

[fonzie_007]

Thanks for the links Cache. Much appreicated.

 

[EbookLover]

I agree. You should never mask a domain or share hosting for multiple domains on one domain. From an SEO standpoint it's suicide for you domain.

What you should do if you develop a lot of domains is to get a true multi-domain host or a reseller hosing account (which will be true multi-domain). Thre are many places that offer reseller accounts. Not too many places with true multi-domain hosting though. I know of 2 that I have used and liked, though, but the problem is they do not use CPanel but rather WHM. I prefer CPanel. But it seems that all true multi-domain/NON-reseller hosting accounts that are worth a damn use WHM rather than CPanel. Not sure why that is.

These 2 true multi-domain/non-reseller account hosts are...

http://www.neureal.com

and

http://www.existhosting.com

I like Neureal better, but they are both good. I no longer use either as I have a CPanel reseller account with another host now.

If I ever do require multi-domain hosting and don't necessarily need CPanel, I would go back to neureal in a heartbeat.

Beware of CPanel hosting that is not reseller but claims it is multi-domain. It really isn't. It is what you can add-on domains. Meaning, you can park unlimited domains and then have unlimited subdomains on your main domain then redirect/mask your parked domains to their respective subdomain on the main domain. Pointless and not good for SEO.

 

[hiweb]

Thanks for the great info and links everyone. They really helped me out

 

[cache]

what is a true multi-domain and what is not a true one? I use dreamhost.com, is it a true multi-domain?

I agree. You should never mask a domain or share hosting for multiple domains on one domain. From an SEO standpoint it's suicide for you domain.

What you should do if you develop a lot of domains is to get a true multi-domain host or a reseller hosing account (which will be true multi-domain). Thre are many places that offer reseller accounts. Not too many places with true multi-domain hosting though. I know of 2 that I have used and liked, though, but the problem is they do not use CPanel but rather WHM. I prefer CPanel. But it seems that all true multi-domain/NON-reseller hosting accounts that are worth a damn use WHM rather than CPanel. Not sure why that is.

These 2 true multi-domain/non-reseller account hosts are...

http://www.neureal.com

and

http://www.existhosting.com

I like Neureal better, but they are both good. I no longer use either as I have a CPanel reseller account with another host now.

If I ever do require multi-domain hosting and don't necessarily need CPanel, I would go back to neureal in a heartbeat.

Beware of CPanel hosting that is not reseller but claims it is multi-domain. It really isn't. It is what you can add-on domains. Meaning, you can park unlimited domains and then have unlimited subdomains on your main domain then redirect/mask your parked domains to their respective subdomain on the main domain. Pointless and not good for SEO.

 

[weblord]

Hi all,

I just wanted to know what the pros and cons are for "stealth" redirection as a way of parking domain.

Does "stealth" redirection (also known as "masked" or "framed") allow you to add your own title, meta information to your parked pages?

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated

just use non-stealth redirect mostly short urls services are getting the pr out of a domain with framed redirects.

framing is an issue in page ranking because you are actually feeding the search engine with multiple pages and only one page is needed per page rank and is also a bit of spam, if you have several pages of course you have several meta titles as well.

 

[xtremest]

I use stealth redirect for parking (only 100% clear frame, just to hide a url), but you should see if it conflicts with TOS or ask for persmission to do it.