SEO Tycoon

**jsmcm** · 07-03-2007, 01:36 PM

Hi,

Sorry if the title was not very clear, but I didn't really know how to word it.

I have a hosting account with a huge amount of space. I have about 5 or 6 domain names all pointing to this same hosting space, all to a single PHP page. This PHP page simply checks the URL that was used to get there, then redirects to the correct content.

Will this affect my google rankings if I redirect in this way?

Any help and insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

**chrishirst** · 07-04-2007, 05:56 AM

depends on how the redirect is done.

**aryan333** · 07-04-2007, 07:33 AM

I dont think so .... google will see every site from different angle....

**hschmitz** · 07-04-2007, 08:47 AM

AFAIK Google does not have a way of knowing that these sites are hosted on a single hosting account.

Redirecting by using http headers does mess up your Google Analytics though, because all you will get as refering site is your own forwarding page.
Instead, I would use PHP to load the different HTML pages depending on the domain

**seoreign** · 07-04-2007, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hschmitz

AFAIK Google does not have a way of knowing that these sites are hosted on a single hosting account.

but google know how to trace the ip

**ADAM Web Design** · 07-04-2007, 11:53 AM

If it's a 301 redirect, then no. If it's a 302, you're going to have problems.

Search engines allow for 301 redirects, particularly Google, for canonical reasons (i.e. to redirect a non-www to a www domain name).

By the way, how did you slip through the net with your domain name? Seems to me that Experts Exchange will be all over your *** as soon as they find out you've got the .co.za version of their domain.

**Vasity** · 07-04-2007, 12:10 PM

So, um. I don't see how having more then one website can ding you. That would make no sence, lol. Google trying to ding you for owningmore then one website seems unlikely ...

**vangogh** · 07-04-2007, 05:39 PM

Vasity read the question. It's not about owning more than one domain. It's about hosting them all on the same account and using a php redirect to direct traffic the appropriate domain.

By the way Google is a domain registrar. They don't offer it as a service, but they do have access to a lot of domain information. You can certainly hide things from them, but they know more about a domain than just it's IP.

**Learning Newbie** · 07-05-2007, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vangogh

Vasity read the question. It's not about owning more than one domain. It's about hosting them all on the same account and using a php redirect to direct traffic the appropriate domain.

By the way Google is a domain registrar. They don't offer it as a service, but they do have access to a lot of domain information. You can certainly hide things from them, but they know more about a domain than just it's IP.

This is good to know, and it just goes to prove "knowledge is power."