Hi,

I have noticed some of my competitors have purchased several domain
names to point to their one website. Sort of reminds me of a builder
advertising in the Yellow Pages under different company names.

Anyway, I just wondered what the consensus of opinion is on this
practice: Is it frowned upon? Am i missing a trick? Do you get sent to
Siberia by Google?

Cheers,

Gary
www.3inabed.com

gazza@3inabed.com wrote:
Dont think it matters to be honest. We tend to grab domains that are
similar to our own to prevent someone mistyping and ending up at a
competitors web site. I think that's perfectly fair. No comment on
google... honestly stopped caring about ranking on their (although we
tend to do alright).

"SpaceGirl" <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote in message
news:1142873487.500193.17270@i39g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
There is some evidence that if you park them they will be viewed as copies
of the same site.
Its safer to use redirects e.g. in apache you would use permanently moved.


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Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?",
gazza@3inabed.com finally proclaimed:

I usually think of it as being particularly greedy more than anything
else. Depending on how you implement it, Google might see it as multiple
sites offering the same content (can be punished), /or/ one site with
multiple identities (can dilute page rank), /or/ if done correctly it
will see one site with one identity but a loads of domains permanently
redirected to it.

The fact remains however that your customers will no doubt get confused
if your site is referred to as being several different names, so it's
best to stick to the one main name and have all other redirected to it.

One last point is that this trick is often employed by those who create
sites purely to be at the top of the Google results, but have no content
of their own, offering merely a crappy search directory in its stead.

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On 20 Mar 2006 08:51:27 -0800, "SpaceGirl"
<nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote:

<aol>

And I thought it was just me...

Matt

Dylan Parry wrote:
Greedy? So if I register dhnewmedia.com but let dhnewmedia.net go,
that's fine? So a competitor sees I'm doing well on the .com so buys
the .net. That's just stupidity, nothing to do with greed.

Yes, so you only promote one URL. The others either go nowhere.

That's true.

Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", SpaceGirl
finally proclaimed:

No, that's not what I meant. I think that buying your company
trademarked name in several different TLDs is okay, but registering
dozens of unrelated domains for that use (keyword1.tld, keyword2.tld ...
keyword/n/.tld) is a totally different matter.

Of course, in some situations registering the same name in several TLDs
could just be inappropriate. For example registering a charity name in
both .org and .com, where the .com would have been an unsuitable choice.

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Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
Dylan Parry <usenet@dylanparry.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

the entire TLD system is a mess and open to abuse and corruption at every
level - but hey. this is the modern world - chaos is to be expected.

I'm old enough to remember (it wasn't that long ago) when sites with
similar names would offer a "were you looking for ...." link on their home
page.

wouldn't it be a refreshing change to see "were you looking for Ilford
Business Machines" at http://ibm.com

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Dylan Parry wrote:
Ah okay. I agree.

Perhaps. I think TLDs have been to abused to ever be "fixed".

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