SEO Tycoon

**Learnin' n00b** · 03-25-2011, 09:02 PM

If I have a website, say www.mywebsite.com, and I have several urls like:

url1.com
url2.com
url3.com

and those domains are forwarded to www.mywebsite.com, how does that affect the SEO of the site? Does it help, hurt, or do nothing for my website's pagerank?

**Benmoore47** · 03-26-2011, 02:33 AM

In my opinion it can not be affected cause they are all different.

**chrishirst** · 03-26-2011, 09:49 AM

There is only one site to be "optimised"

**chrishirst** · 03-26-2011, 09:50 AM

AND

for what SGB is worth (~0) it will in all likelyhood "hurt"

**Learnin' n00b** · 03-26-2011, 07:52 PM

Sorry, what's SGB?

So you're saying that links to domains that are forwarded to my website will probably hurt my site's seo?

**chrishirst** · 03-26-2011, 08:16 PM

Silly Green Bar.

PR is based on the UR of a page, so if links point to an page/site alias the PR applies to that URL NOT the "main URL"

**Learnin' n00b** · 03-27-2011, 09:30 AM

Oh, OK.

I know that page rank isn't the only factor determining a website's placement in search engine results. Do you know if having the forwarded domains would help or hurt my website's overall placement?

I appreciate your advice!

**chrishirst** · 03-27-2011, 09:39 AM

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Do you know if having the forwarded domains would help or hurt my website's overall placement?

Each page/site is an INDEPENDENT ENTITY, so five URIs pointing to the same content equals FIVE duplicates.

So four of them are going to be filtered out of the equation, and it may not be the same four each time.

**chrishirst** · 03-27-2011, 09:44 AM

AND

Of course it does depend on how the forwarding is accomplished which you have neglected to inform us HOW you propose this is to be done.

**Learnin' n00b** · 03-27-2011, 10:17 AM

Sorry, I didn't know there were multiple ways of doing it. I have my domains in godaddy and there's an option in the domain manager to forward the domain. That's how I would be doing it.

So someone would type in the URL of one of the forwarded domains, and the browser would immediately go to my site.

My motivation behind this is that some people (quite a few) want to have their own domain names that then point to a personalized version of my website.

**chrishirst** · 03-27-2011, 10:43 AM

Two methods of forwarding, frame forwarding and redirection.

Frame forwarding
This is where a framset is built with a zero pixel high top frame and the target site is set as the source (src) attribute value for the bottom (main) frame.
The target website would remain crawled and indexed at it's own URI so no mirroring or duplication occurs.
However the URL that is beng forwarded has no content at all.

Redirection (serverside):

This can be made permanent or temporary by the server sending different response code to useragent requesting the URI

A permanent redirect means that all traffic is sent to the target URI and the browser address bar will change to the target.
This means the redirected URLs will cease to exist as an independent entity.

A temporary redirect changes the address bar BUT maintains the independent nature of each forwarded URI.

But having said that;

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My motivation behind this is that some people (quite a few) want to have their own domain names that then point to a personalized version of my website.

What you are talking about are Turnkey websites. Duplicate sites where only a few changes to the content occur depending on the URI used to reach the site.

**Learnin' n00b** · 03-27-2011, 10:57 AM

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A permanent redirect means that all traffic is sent to the target URI and the browser address bar will change to the target.
This means the redirected URLs will cease to exist as an independent entity.

So as long as the "I am permanently forwarding my domain" option is selected in Godaddy, what I'm trying to do won't hurt my website's position in search results?

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... Duplicate sites where only a few changes to the content occur depending on the URI used to reach the site.

Yes, I guess that's what I'm doing.

**chrishirst** · 03-27-2011, 11:16 AM

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So as long as the "I am permanently forwarding my domain" option is selected in Godaddy, what I'm trying to do won't hurt my website's position in search results?

Nope, it will of course ensure that none of the turnkey sites URIs appear in the results either.

**Learnin' n00b** · 03-27-2011, 11:35 AM

So would it affect my website's seo at all if links to those forwarded domains exist places, or just have no affect whatsoever?

**full house** · 03-27-2011, 08:59 PM

I don't think so, if you have some issues about those sites maybe... like duplicate content issues...

**Learnin' n00b** · 03-27-2011, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by full house

I don't think so..

You don't think it would hurt my website's seo, or don't think it would help my website's seo?

**chrishirst** · 03-28-2011, 05:00 AM

If they are turnkey duplicates of one site as you optimise one you optimise them all.

HOWEVER promoting them is a different thing entirely.

If you are selling turnkey sites as lead generators, which is the ONLY realistic reason for turnkey site to exist, how SEs treat the "original" and the mirrors is totally immaterial, the whole setup becomes about direct sales and conversions NOT SE "rankings" and other such intangibles.

**hotellasuite** · 03-29-2011, 01:49 AM

all traffic of others 3 website will send to your main website, and traffic doesn't affect SEO.

if your other websites has some links and has 301 rediration to your money website than it will affect your website according to link quality, it may hart or good.

**chrishirst** · 03-29-2011, 04:53 AM

How can you "optimise" three sites when they are redirected to the one site??