Hi

Hope someone can help here. I have registered 7 domain names for a website and I want to use these domain names to promote individual pages in my website through google. Each seperate section of the website relates to a different area. I know google don't like cloaked pages would I be better building individual sites on these and then redirecting the customer to the main site?

My main site is flash based and has no ranking on google so I was thinking of getting the other domain names ranked and redirecting them to the main site? Will this work for me or are there any other suggestions anyone can think of?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Pete

the safest way is to have a parallel HTML site (on the same domain) then use one of the many flash detect scripts to redirect user agents. That way real visitors without flash (which are quite a few) also go to the alternate site.

Personally I will leave a flash site within seconds of arriving, simply because experience tells me I will be wasting time looking for the information I expected to find there, while having to sit through lots of pointless animations.

Personally I will leave a flash site within seconds of arriving, simply because experience tells me I will be wasting time looking for the information I expected to find there, while having to sit through lots of pointless animations.

It all depends on what is your target audience but if its webmaster related then the above things hold perfectly

True enough shabbir,

If your target is game playing teens or it's a cartoon site then flash is fine. But if you are trying to sell a product forget it.

Hi Guys

Thanks for the info. The site is a property sales site but what we need is the different areas promoted individually. Sorry property sales abroad. So we would need cyprus promoted seperately from florida or spain etc. Any ideas any of you have to do this let me know.

regards

Pete

personally I prefer to use sub-folders to create a site architecture that is both logical and obvious to real visitors and makes site maintenance simple.

The point that many people seem to miss is that SEs rank pages not sites so having sections about a single subject can be beneficial from the point of creating "hubs" with your navigation.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

If your target is game playing teens or it's a cartoon site then flash is fine. But if you are trying to sell a product forget it.

I have started use a flash header graphic on a lot of my sales sites. To be honest i have rarely gone to the effort of creating alternative site with flash detect redirect script. Do you think that could be effecting my sales? I thought these days most people had the flash plugin?

In my opinion, you would be better off building individual sites on each domain and linking these sites to your main site (not redirecting). This will let you build a little "network" of sites, and they will help each others' link popularities by linking to one another if you set up a good link structure.

If these seven areas of your site are big enough that you bought domains for them, chances are you can make a nice, functional website for each one as well. If they are merely being used to shorten the URL's for accessing these certain areas of your site, redirecting the domains (as opposed to cloaking) may be the way to go. This would not get your site penalized in any way by Google, while cloaking is specifically banned in Google's TOS (see http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#cloaking, although I believe this is referring to a definition of "cloaking" different from the one you had in mind).

Hope this helps!

Hi Developed web

Thanks for the info one thing I am a bit confused on I didn't think that google or the other search engines picked up just a domain name redirected to a site I thought you had to have something built on that domain name for the search engines to pick up on. Am I mis-informed?

Pete