SEO Tycoon

**dadofgage** · 08-10-2006, 09:14 PM

So we have a domain name and a web site on there.

We have about 4 similar domains that we bought.

Is it good practice to point these domains to the main site?

We don't want to do anything to get banned from the SE --

So SEO gurus - what's best practice here?

**A.N.Onym** · 08-11-2006, 04:44 AM

If you simply want visitors be redirected to the same website (the main domain), set up a 301 redirect with a .htaccess file for all but the main domains.

Generally, this will tell the SEs where the content is.

Essentially, this won't let them index the other sites.

Another issue, though, is having the same content on all of the domains without redirects - then most of them will be filtered from the results.

**dadofgage** · 08-11-2006, 10:34 AM

There is only going to be one site - we just have two other good domain names that have the likelyhood of being typed in and we didn't want to loose that traffic.

**Elemak** · 08-11-2006, 11:17 AM

Yeah best idea is to use 301 redirects for all but the main domain.

**imported_Net-Margin** · 08-11-2006, 12:43 PM

If you actually want to do this then you should use a 301 direct as said above, but I think you will only get your main domain name cached and indexed in Search Engines.

**PeterLancs** · 08-11-2006, 01:00 PM

its good "cross linking" gets you up in the searches

I maintain these:

**imported_Tom** · 08-23-2006, 05:41 AM

what goes in the .htaccess?

**handsome rob** · 08-23-2006, 10:21 AM

If you've got 50 or more domains going to the same site, I'd use a 301 funnel. Hey, just cuz I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not after me