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Aaron Pratt

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More options May 13, 12:30 am

From: Aaron Pratt

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:30:51 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, May 13 2008 12:30 am

Subject: Re: Multiple domains, single site - ranking question

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If using multiple domains that are of the same flavor boosts search
engine rankings I am sure Google will do something about it
eventually. Are these sites just redirecting to the main website?
Check http://www.gooogle.com/ and watch it forward to the correct
domain. If they are writing tons of pages that all link to the main
site I am sure this can be detected algorithmically and lose the
benefits quick... but who knows?

It is often something else that is making a website rank, this is why
"SEOs" have some much luck, they HIT IT until one thing sticks.

Come on now, give us the URL of the main domain, if you don't it looks
like YOU are looking for a way to game google!

On May 12, 10:22 am, cb74 wrote:

> We have a client who owns many rental properties, but all under one
> main umbrella. They own domain names for all of their rental
> properties names individually, however those domain names currently
> point to the main website page about that particular property. So,
> for example:

> Main company: XYZRealty.com
> Owned properties: ACondos.com, BCondos.com, CCondos.com

> A,B,C all point to their respective pages within the XYZ site as
> redirects. There are probably 20 of these properties.

> My question. Is this actually hurting their placement in Google free
> results? Is this considered to be tricking Google or is it not that
> big of a deal? They don't want to invest in individual sites for each
> of their properties because its simply not cost effective nor
> practical for them when they can have all of their properties on one
> main site, yet for marketing purposes having unique domain names that
> point people to the one main site is most effective. I was just
> curious to know if having these 20 or so sites pointing there is
> detrimental to their free results ranking?

> I'll look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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