Domain forwarding any use?

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Something that I've always been unsure about, and that's let's say you have a website called FrisbeeThrowing.com, and you buy a bunch of other .coms about frisbeeing as well, such as frisbeeperson.com, frisbeeflyer.com etc.

Now what's the best approach, is it better to just stick all those other domains on forwarding, and forward them to FrisbeeThrowing.com or is better to set up a landing page for each of them, with some content, which then has lots of links to FrisbeeThrowing.com ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
    If your looking for a seo boost you can just 301 them to your money site.

    If your looking for traffic you could setup a doorway page and try to get it ranked.
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    • Profile picture of the author biggerplay
      Originally Posted by Ryan3 View Post

      If your looking for a seo boost you can just 301 them to your money site.

      If your looking for traffic you could setup a doorway page and try to get it ranked.
      What's 301? web forwarding? or is it a certain kind of web forwarding? permanent or something?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
    301 is a type of redirect. It is permanent
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    • Profile picture of the author RocketBarrel
      Originally Posted by Ryan3 View Post

      301 is a type of redirect. It is permanent
      Any important things to note when setting up a "doorway" page? Worth ranking in Google or anything like that, or just a one page site?

      Sorry for all the questions, I'm mildly interested about this one too
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by Ryan3 View Post

      301 is a type of redirect. It is permanent
      You mean, like forever? What if you change your mind?

      Nothing is permanent unless you keep paying for it and doing it.

      302 could be left permanently.

      301 "signals" to google that you want to change the page to a new destination, and you
      want them to update that. And you are not going to ever change it back. Promise.

      But all things must pass.

      If you don't know about redirects, then why are you asking?

      You seem to be just grasping at some pie in the sky website riches shmooze with
      domains.

      The kicker is, if those are brand new domains are never developed sites, a 301 would
      be pointless. I mean, what are you telling google you want changed, pernanently?
      Nothing. No SEO benefit.

      301 redirects were for specific reasons. Not to send a zillion sites to the another one.

      That's insane. That's insane thinking.

      Start thinking like a sane person.

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      • Profile picture of the author RocketBarrel
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        You mean, like forever? What if you change your mind?

        Nothing is permanent unless you keep paying for it and doing it.

        302 could be left permanently.

        301 "signals" to google that you want to change the page to a new destination, and you
        want them to update that. And you are not going to ever change it back. Promise.

        But all things must pass.

        If you don't know about redirects, then why are you asking?

        You seem to be just grasping at some pie in the sky website riches shmooze with
        domains.

        The kicker is, if those are brand new domains are never developed sites, a 301 would
        be pointless. I mean, what are you telling google you want changed, pernanently?
        Nothing. No SEO benefit.

        301 redirects were for specific reasons. Not to send a zillion sites to the another one.

        That's insane. That's insane thinking.

        Start thinking like a sane person.

        Paul
        Well, here's another situation.

        Say you have a website doing well for a keyword, 2nd or higher in Google. At some point, you get the .com for that exact term, and it's never really been developed before.

        What's the best thing to do with that domain at this point (so no link juice), considering you've got a good website going running on this keyword already under another domain (being the "largest" keyword)?

        Interested to what you think of this.

        Thanks,
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        • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
          Originally Posted by RocketBarrel View Post

          Well, here's another situation.

          Say you have a website doing well for a keyword, 2nd or higher in Google. At some point, you get the .com for that exact term, and it's never really been developed before.

          What's the best thing to do with that domain at this point (so no link juice), considering you've got a good website going running on this keyword already under another domain (being the "largest" keyword)?

          Interested to what you think of this.

          Thanks,
          301 the preexisting domain to the new .COM. You will keep your rankings. Or you can just ditch the new .COM.
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          • Profile picture of the author RocketBarrel
            Originally Posted by SEO Power View Post

            301 the preexisting domain to the new .COM. You will keep your rankings. Or you can just ditch the new .COM.
            Is there no way to get some additional link juice out of the new .com?

            Edit: Keep in mind, the domain doesn't have a history, and there aren't many type-ins.
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  • Profile picture of the author biggerplay
    Just to be clear, so there's no point forwarding a new .com to another site? only if it's a pre-existing site? so if it's a new .com then it's better to have even a 1 page site, and do something with it, and then have buttons etc driving traffic to the other site?
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