Landing Page Confusion

by seocognition

Posted: 11 years ago 18 replies

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Greetings,

I have a question about utilizing different domains for the sake of landing pages. For example, if I have (domain1.com) which is the main domain, is it safe to build a landing page on lets say.. (domain1florida.com), or (domain1georgia.com), but the only thing thats different about these other 2 domains is the landing page?

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Josh

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NatesMarketing

11 years ago

I am kind of confused by your question. If I understand it correctly I would use subdomains:
- florida.domain1.com
- georga.domain1.com

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seocognition

11 years ago

Originally Posted by NatesMarketing

I am kind of confused by your question. If I understand it correctly I would use subdomains:
- florida.domain1.com
- georga.domain1.com

I'm confused by asking it

Sorry.

I'm more specifically talking about this domain: http://southcarolinaatm.com/. But when you click on any link in the top menu there, if you look closely it takes you to this domain: http://www.carolinaatm.com/.

I'm wanting to interlink another batch of simular sites in the same manner, but didn't know if this was considered spammy in the eyes of Google.

I hope this makes more sense.

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Josh

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higherluv

11 years ago

Originally Posted by seocognition

I'm confused by asking it

Sorry.

I'm more specifically talking about this domain: South Carolina ATM | Mobile ATM | Event ATM | Portable ATM | ATM Rentals. But when you click on any link in the top menu there, if you look closely it takes you to this domain: ATM Company | ATM Machines | ATM Placement | Carolina ATM | ATM Processing | Mobile ATM.

I'm wanting to interlink another batch of simular sites in the same manner, but didn't know if this was considered spammy in the eyes of Google.

I hope this makes more sense.

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Josh

I don't think you will have a problem provided that you're doing your best to drive traffic to those other similar sites. I.e., statedomain1.com.

A little bit a side but related question: you have a south carolina website linking to a carolina website. In addition to north carolina, what other sites were you considering?? I'm a little confused... :confused: (see?)

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Istvan Horvath

11 years ago

Originally Posted by higherluv

A little bit a side but related question: you have a south carolina website linking to a carolina website. In addition to north carolina, what other sites were you considering?? I'm a little confused... :confused: (see?)

It is not HIS site... it is the "model" he wants to copy.

For a "seo expert" it's a rather not-so-wise plan: having the same content on different domain names (i.e. the same content on many websites you own!) doesn't sound as a good plan.

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seocognition

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

I don't plan on having the same content.

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Istvan Horvath

11 years ago

Originally Posted by seocognition

I don't plan on having the same content.

Actually, according to your OP... you do!

Originally Posted by seocognition

For example, if I have (domain1.com) which is the main domain, is it safe to build a landing page on lets say.. (domain1florida.com), or (domain1georgia.com), but the only thing thats different about these other 2 domains is the landing page?

Translated: everything else is the same on those domains, except the landing page. Didn't you just said that? :rolleyes:

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seocognition

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Actually, according to your OP... you do!

Translated: everything else is the same on those domains, except the landing page. Didn't you just said that? :rolleyes:

Greetings,

I'm sorry, I may have not explained it exactly.

If website A ONLY has (1) link (which is the landing page of itself), all the other links that go to website B are outbound from site A. So therefore all the content would and should be considered unique.

I'm kinda thinking this out as I go along. If I'm missing something, I don't mind being corrected!

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Istvan Horvath

11 years ago

Originally Posted by seocognition

I'm sorry, I may have not explained it exactly.

No, you haven't. And it's just getting worse and worse

Website A in your scenario has NO link that points to any of its own pages/folders. Period. It has one page: the landing page. A one-page website is not its own link (sounds like the snake biting its own tail...)

A few years ago there was a very popular scam on the world wide web: it looked like a genuine news site and if you arrived to it as a visitor if displayed 'welcome to the Springfield, MO fantastic news site' while for me it would have been 'welcome to the Waterdown, ON fantastic news site'
... then it urged you to get a trial something for $1 - and after the short trial period it charged everybody $40-50-100/mo... and it was f*cking difficult to cancel those subscriptions.

Well, the site you linked to as an example, reminded me exactly of those scams

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seocognition

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

No, you haven't. And it's just getting worse and worse

You are majoring on minors here.

Say there is one main company that has many site files and folders. It's the mother ship if you will.

If you create landing pages (on multiple domains), and then place the same links in the menus of all those multiple landing pages that link back to the mother sites pages, you are not creating duplicate content.

Please correct me if I'm wrong....

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seocognition 11 years ago

Well any advice?
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seocognition

11 years ago

Originally Posted by higherluv

This specific setup isn't mine, but it's a model for something that I am looking to do within the same niche and different set of websites.

The fear of creating this setup (for me) is the fact that the sites look identical without the viewer knowing that they are jumping from domain to domain (unless they see the URL or logo changes).

So essentially it's a smart way to have a "catch all" solution ONLY if these are not considered spammy or black hat techniques.

I personally see it as an effective move, but will Google see it that way?

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higherluv

11 years ago

Originally Posted by seocognition

I see - no Google won't see it like that. Google's biggest pet peeve is sites that have duplicate content (multiple pages of the exact same content in the same site). Your plan doesn't seem to be that way - a) it's different sites, and b) different content compared with the site you're linking to and hopefully different from site to site.

If you do your best to promote those "minisites" (that's what I'll call them

) legitimately, and all your sites are interesting enough to stay on without a horribly high bounce rate then I believe you shouldn't have a problem.

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seocognition

11 years ago

Originally Posted by higherluv

) legitimately, and all your sites are interesting enough to stay on without a horribly high bounce rate then I believe you shouldn't have a problem.

This is kinda what I thought.

I think they would be considered safe, but the reason I had red flags about this idea is because of the "sneaky" URL change. I don't think it would be different than a sub domain quite honestly. They are both inadvertently performing the same process I think...

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onSubie

11 years ago

Yes you can this.

No it won't help SEO or your rankings

If it looks like traffic satellites funneling traffic back to the mothership then Google may crush you like they did BMW.

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seocognition

11 years ago

This explains it exactly. It seems like a really smart concept. So is this what happened to BMW?

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onSubie

11 years ago

Originally Posted by seocognition

This explains it exactly. It seems like a really smart concept. So is this what happened to BMW?

BMW was using "doorway" sites to trick Google into sending traffic for all sorts of keywords.

When Google realized these doorway sites were gaming the system and did not relate to the content of the end destination (BMW), they reduced the main BMW site to PR0 and de-indexed all the feeder sites.

"BMW's German website, which is heavily reliant on javascript code unsearchable by Google, used text-heavy pages liberally sprinkled with key words to attract the attention of Google's indexing system.

However, once a user clicked on the link displayed in Google's results window, they were redirected to a regular BMW Germany page, which contained far fewer of the key words."

BBC NEWS | Technology | BMW given Google 'death penalty'

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seocognition

11 years ago

Originally Posted by onSubie

Thanks so much for your reply. This is interesting. What I'm doing is a bit different than that of BMW I presume.

I think the only issue could be the menu links (on each of the landing pages) that will always go to the main home page to the mother site. My plan is to (nofollow noindex) them. All Google should see is the single landing pages.

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redexclub 11 years ago

Website A's landing page will be something like this: landingpage.websiteA.com (IDeal)

websiteB.com can be a single website or a landing page of Website B

Two domains means Two Sites!!

search engine will not count website b for website a or website a for website b. When you will show information of website b to website a (throw any link or something) ..it will be fair but a lot of outbound links could be spam.

Be careful
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