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Question for the SEO blackbelts

by netrover
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but will having multiple registered domains pointing to the same root folder (website) dilute/weaken the website's natural ranking?

Let's say you have mywebsite.com, my-website.com and my-web-site.com pointing to the same website.

If I just had mywebsite.com, would it rank higher in Google, all things being equal?

Also, which one of these sites would be indexed in Google (or would all them be indexed)?

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author kchui1028
    i know http://mywebsite.com and http://www.mywebsite.com will dilute it. not sure about the above examples.. but if you mean just get the other domains and point to the same site.. there's no problem. what do you think google and goooogle and gooooooole all point to google.com
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    • Profile picture of the author JeffMitchell
      Personally with my experience with different marketing systems, I will say that having multiple URLS pointing to the same site is great seo juice. Something similar to having affiliates redirect your domain name to their domain name.

      There is in my opinion no reason that it will not help. Especially if there is two domains that are similar.

      www.InternetMarketingTraining.Com and www.InternetMarketingTrainings.Com

      Those are pretty much the same thing and could work as good seo juice if you are targeting that term.

      Hope that helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mik Dunne
    Its difficult to say which will get indexed, but i suspect the mywebsite.com will (only one of them will). It will not dilute the sites natural ranking (Google will understand that the site is the same, just with different urls).

    The answer is test and see what happens and continually check your ranking.

    Cheers

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    • Profile picture of the author TSDMike
      In my experience, you gain nothing by having a bunch on non-indexed domains registered to simply redirect to another site. Now if you have landing pages on the domains with links pointing to the target site, then yes it will provide positive SEO.

      Remember this: as far as Google is concerned, content is king. As to your question about which one would get indexed, it would be the one with the most relevant content to the keywords you're targeting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
    Instead of having them go to the same place on your host set a 301 (permanent redirect) from all of the domains to a specific one. That will funnel all the link juice sent to any of them to the main one you select, which will then rank better in the search engines.
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    • Profile picture of the author netrover
      Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher View Post

      Instead of having them go to the same place on your host set a 301 (permanent redirect) from all of the domains to a specific one. That will funnel all the link juice sent to any of them to the main one you select, which will then rank better in the search engines.
      I think this is the proper solution.

      My situation is that I registered my-website.com, built up some content, and now want to register mywebsite.com which is available. I found out that one cannot "delete" a domain until it expires. So, I will buy mywebsite.com, point it to the root folder of the site I started and hope I didn't shoot myself in the foot having my-website.com out there. I think the SEO all depends on which domain the backlinks point to, and of course I will use mywebsite.com when backlinking.
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  • Profile picture of the author RedEvo
    Redirecting domains won't help your SEO efforts.

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  • Profile picture of the author joetheseo
    It's not going to hurt you, but certainly not going to help.


    Just stick to one domain IMO
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  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    Make sure you point with a 301 re-direct and you will be fine, no SEO penalty.
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