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New domain names w/301 Redirect & Organic Rankings

by ZapLabeler
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Heya guys...

So I have a website selling my products. I'm doing okay at getting some organic rankings. Page 1 and 2 organically for all the main keywords. Lets call this site 'www.mymainsite.com'

I have since purchased some great domain names that have the top searched keywords as the domain name.

'www.mybestkeyword1.com'
'www.mybestkeyword2.com'
'www.mybestkeyword3.com'

I have a 301 redirect from those new domains to 'mymainsite.com' and that's working fine.

How can I get those 'mybestkeyword' sites to start ranking to get them up in the searches.... or is that even possible being that they're just redirects? If I market with those 'mybestkeyword' sites I know I can track just how my marketing is working, but will the juice from my main site trickle over to the keyword sites...and vice versa?


Thanks for any info...
-Just-a-newb
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  • Profile picture of the author TheContentAuthority
    Zaplabeler,

    I’m not sure there is any authoritative information on this strategy out there but my thought is that you will have a hard time ranking domains that are just redirects.

    For example I recently launched a new version of a site that had a lot of the same content but a different brand and URL. Naturally the old brand website needed to stay running up until the launch and when we did finally launch it, content was removed from the old domain and a 301 redirect was put in place for all pages to the new domain.

    After a few months, those old domain names stopped appearing in search even for the branded keywords. Instead the new brand name was appearing along with the new brand URL. So I think that Google can tell the URL is just a redirect so it serves the final destination URL as opposed to one that will just redirect users.

    Hope that helps,

    SHawn
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  • Profile picture of the author ZapLabeler
    So lets say i keep 'mymainsite.com' which has brand name info in the domain name. Will the mymainsite.com page get served when people search for the keywords associated with the 'mybestkeyword.com' page domain name?

    I.e. If i search for mybestkeyword.... due to the name of mybestkeyword.com domain, will mymainsite.com get served?

    Sorry if this isn't making sense... i'm trying to figure it out.
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