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Uncloaking / Unmasking my Domain

by Ethan W.
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Currently i'm in the fitness niche and I have my domain cloaked and masked so I don't have to host anything and my site is a direct comparison to my dealers site....lazy I know.

I know the main downfall with this is when google realizes this I won't be able to get any natural SEO from my site's domain, so I've just been doing manual article marketing...

Now my question is, if in the future I were to stop masking and cloaking my domain name and create a squeeze page or a presale page with the domain I currently have, would google see all the links leading to that site irrelevant or would it not effect that at all?

Thanks,
Ethan W.
#domain #uncloaking #unmasking
  • Profile picture of the author NCONRADIE
    Edit: I wanted to post some dummy links below to illustrate my point but wasn't allowed. Hence using [dot]

    I think if you are smart about it, it should not be affected at all.

    What I would do is the following:
    1. Keep the cloaked/masked domain as is.
    2. For my squeeze and marketing rather either create subfolders or subdomains.

    Subfolders would thus look something like www[dot]mydomain[dot]com/squeeze

    Subdomains would be squeeze[dot]mydomain[dot]com

    (Subdomains are easy to set up and you usually can create up to 20 subdomains per domain).

    Some guys get clever with this. They for instance use a domain like
    www[dot]com-something[dot]com
    They then create a subdomain using the same name for the sub domain as the product or competitor domain.
    Thus product[dot]com-something[dot]com
    Because of the clever way it is structured, and the way we humans read stuff, it the only see the first part which looks like the original domain.

    Hope I didn't get off point too much.
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