Hello folks,

Here's my situation: say I own website1.com (which is my main site). I also own the domain names website2.com and website3.com. The names of website2.com and website3.com are similar to website1.com so they might get me some type-in traffic at website1.com with a redirect. Google might even index them but yes, I know the danger in all of that.

So right now now I currently have website2.com and website3.com forwarded to website1.com through godaddy. I'm pretty sure godaddy is using a 302 redirect.

Here is my question: how is godaddy's forwarding affecting my google PR on website1.com? Is it even worth it to own the similar domain names (website1.com & website2.com) and have them forwarded to website1.com in an effort to gain a better PR and thus higher traffic?

I've been researching all this for about a month now and I'm lost at what to really do.

Thanks in advance.

You really are not going to gain much PR by linking to yourself through different domains. If you are looking for traffic gains because the name of the domain is something people might type in indirectly, then I would mark them all with a no-index tag so that google doesn't ban you for portal sites.

If they are to generate search engine traffic, I would try and build them as all seperate sites. More work yes, but much much safer.