Is it possible to have more than one domain name?

[JimMichael]

All in terms of SEO...

Just say my business is called 'Elite Carpentry Training' and my main keywords are 'carpentry training program' and 'easy carpentry training'.

Would the following work...and correct me as I am a newbie!

Main domain: elitecarpentrytraining.com

2 more domains as add-on domains to the main one, in order to act as exact-match domains for my main keywords: carpentrytrainingprogram.com and easycarpentrytraining.com

Would that work? I'd like a main URL that captures my brand, while also having some good exact-match domains to catch those searching for those keywords on Google.

Any advice would help!

Thanks.

[Dimian]

i don't see why not, not too bad of an idea really

[Matt Morgan]

Yes, it is possible.

[Ralph Moore]

Yes, you could do that. Or you could simply create a page, or several pages, each optimized for a search phrase to bring some of that traffic to your website.

[Texacola]

Originally Posted by OfferTrunk

All in terms of SEO...

Just say my business is called 'Elite Carpentry Training' and my main keywords are 'carpentry training program' and 'easy carpentry training'.

Would the following work...and correct me as I am a newbie!

Main domain: elitecarpentrytraining.com

2 more domains as add-on domains to the main one, in order to act as exact-match domains for my main keywords: carpentrytrainingprogram.com and easycarpentrytraining.com

Would that work? I'd like a main URL that captures my brand, while also having some good exact-match domains to catch those searching for those keywords on Google.

Any advice would help!

Thanks.

Yes that would work, but not all by itself of course. You'll still need to do all the onpage seo, backlinking and reviews stuff to get up the ranks for all the other long tailed keywords you'll want. I just did a search for the exact phrase of "easy carpentry training" and it had less than 5 competing sites so you could very easily beat all those other sites to the top.

You could also go for something like carpentrytraining.com/easy-carpentry-training.html and carpentrytraining.com/carpentry-training-program.html

Tex

[Dan Freeman]

It is possible, provided you are able to handle all the domains and have good domain management skills..I had too many once and lost touch!

[JimMichael]

Great info Tex, thanks.

Just curious, how do you work out the number of competing sites?

[Texacola]

I had over 600 domains last year but we had a fully automated system to manage them. Too many google algo changes though so I never renewed a single one of those domains.

[Texacola]

Originally Posted by OfferTrunk

Great info Tex, thanks.

Just curious, how do you work out the number of competing sites?

My phrasing was slightly off, should just have said "exact match" search shows very few results. Even the exact match search I mentioned shows this very thread as one of the few. It's a keyword phrase I would go for if it was my niche. I would kick it's bottom doing some heavy nuking along with several videos.

BUT... something that does need to be pointed out is that Googles keyword tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) shows zero searches for "easy carpentry training" a month while "carpentry training" shows 22,200 global searches a month.

You may get some mileage out of starting off with long tailed keywords, or even local search like "Scranton easy carpentry training" while you shoot for the harder phrases that actually show search traffic.

[UMS]

I personally wouldn't go down that track as it means you have to increase the amount of work you need to do for ranking for each separate domain.

It is much easier and better to have a single domain that you build more content and backlinks to than spreading out the site over multiple domains. An exact match domain isn't going to give you much advantage and won't magically rank unless you put content and build backlinks to it.

[jamiedolan]

Re: the value of these for SEO, which I am guessing is your main objective. I've found more and more it is very difficult to rank for exact matches. I have a 10+ year old domain that I have owned for the whole time, I've done a fair amount of work with it and still sit in positive 4 to 7 for an exact match. So you can no longer (for years an exact match domain virtually equaled a top search result) count on those automatic top results for exact match domains.

[Dennis Gaskill]

It works, but you need to optimize each site for the main keyword phrase. You also don't want to use the exact same content on each site.

[JustLight]

My take on that is to have one domain properly optimized for SEO. If you do proper on page and off page SEO for your main keyword and other keywords, the other keywords can even outrank those that register those keywords and domains.

Moreover, getting domain for those other keywords means doing 3X the work you would ordinarily have done and get almost same result

[Wolff2012]

i don't see why not, not too bad of an idea really

[johnny125]

I would rather focus on one domain and do a good SEO for it. As others says - when you will have for example 1000 domains it will be very difficult to manage them

[stevet563]

Hi Offertrunk,

I just read an ebook that said it is good to buy plural and hyphenated versions of your domain too so competitors don't buy them and steal traffic away from your site. So for example you could have elite-carpentry-training.com, easy-carpentry-training.com, and then put the "s" at the end trainings maybe. Just a thought.

[marknel]

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

It works, but you need to optimize each site for the main keyword phrase. You also don't want to use the exact same content on each site.

It is difficult to maintain multiple domains and besides secondary domains are likely to have duplicate content and if its locality based business, you will confuse your visitors.

[Dennis Gaskill]

Originally Posted by marknel

It is difficult to maintain multiple domains and besides secondary domains are likely to have duplicate content and if its locality based business, you will confuse your visitors.

Sounds like you know your own strengths and weaknesses, and that's good, but that doesn't necessarily apply to others. I own about 30 domains and don't have any of the issues you refer to.