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How is this done?

by Blade Runner 77
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I've been surfing the net yesterday, found some interesting sites and clicked on several urls in my url bar. At the moment I made that click the url changed to a dotcom entirely different from the primary one, and the website that appeared was this second url's stuff.
How do they do this?
I can think of some useful and legitimate ways to use this.
  • Profile picture of the author jlandells
    It's often done through redirects. These can be coded in PHP (for example) or are more often handled via .htaccess files. I Googled for a more detailed answer for you and came up with this:

    htaccess 301 redirect tutorial

    Let me know if you need any more.

    Kind regards,
    -John.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    "http://how-to--make-money--online.com"

    - I just noticed this... because honestly I've never seen a url with a single hypen then double hypens.

    That's an interesting strategy...

    This is an off topic reply... but care to explain the logic in that one?
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    • Profile picture of the author Blade Runner 77
      Well, I'm a fair newby so I'm afraid a decent explanation will escape me.

      I do understand why having the same domain name as ones principle keyword is a good thing for search engines etc. Trouble is there are really well moneyed folks who seem to have bought the internets entire supply, lock stock and barrel just because they can.

      When I tried this I was surprised to find that hyphens are read as though they're a text letter and in effect make a url combination thats not taken yet. The moneyed folks seem to know this too because most names I tried to add single hyphens to aren't available either, and also some double hyphens or combination thereof are also taken, hence my combinations of single and double hyphens.

      I don't know how this helps or hurts rankings etc, but I do like that as people get to my web site from an article, they're seeing their search keyword as a site name, as they click to leave, and again when they're at the site, for the mental continuity of feeling like they're in the right place.
      I like seeing websites with names closely related to the subject matter, instead of random cute titles, so I figured it could be a good thing. Technically good or bad? I don't know.
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