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Two domains poiting to the same website?

by Majdi33
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Hello,
While I was checking backlinks of a competetor to my website I noticed that they are using several domain names pointing to the same website. Is it a legit technical for SEO? Lets say I want to rank my website better in US and I bought a domain name with the extension : mywebsite.US and pointed it to my existing website, will this really help to rank my website in US?
Thank you warriors
#domains #poiting #website
  • Profile picture of the author gotlinks
    Yes, you are talking about a Private Site Network.

    They work very well for ranking websites.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    When you say "pointed it", are you referring to a redirect?
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  • Profile picture of the author harry911
    Are you talking about a redirect or backlinks?
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    • Profile picture of the author Majdi33
      Originally Posted by harry911 View Post

      Are you talking about a redirect or backlinks?
      I mean a redirect, when one type two domains he gets the same main website, for example when someone type mysite.us what he get is mywebsite.com
      After all I want to need if it's better to do a redirect or a backlink, thanx
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      • Profile picture of the author Brendan Mace
        Originally Posted by Majdi33 View Post

        I mean a redirect, when one type two domains he gets the same main website, for example when someone type mysite.us what he get is mywebsite.com
        After all I want to need if it's better to do a redirect or a backlink, thanx
        Are you asking whether redirecting a domain name to your main site has any SEO benefit?

        In theory, the backlinks sent to a redirected domain should pass over to the target domain. So if you redirect a High PR domain to your website, it should pass on a bunch of authority. However, you do not want to look like you're gaming the search engines. There are TONS of websites that do this strategy legitimately. For example, Ebgames(dot)com used to have the domain electronicsboutique(dot)com. <--- or something like that. Anyways, they redirected the old domain to the new one, and immediately benefited from the old authority.

        It does work, but if you're doing it for the wrong reasons, then you better be darn good at keeping it under the Google radar.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    The main reason why companies redirect variations of their main domain name is simply to ensure cybersquatters don't come in a register a domain name to steal traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      The main reason why companies redirect variations of their main domain name is simply to ensure cybersquatters don't come in a register a domain name to steal traffic.
      Not just for cybersquatting, but actually using them as well.

      I find these threads quite entertaining. Every big site has a plethora of
      domains pointing to the same site, using various ways of redirecting albeit.

      Like ebaymotors.com for one. ESPN.com for another.

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  • Profile picture of the author Dead Body
    Redirects Gives us good results when we are talking about domain name.. but redirect domains should also have good quality of pagerank and domain authority...
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