> Haha, no problem.  We're currently in the process of revamping all of
> the code on the site to have it validate and making a lot of other
> google optimizations and 508c tweaks.  Just giving it a major cleaning
> across the board.  The code is now about 4 years old and majorly
> overdue for an upgrade.

> Here is one of the individual property domains for example:
> frenchmanscreekapartments.com
> and as you can see, it redirects to that property's page within the
> parent company's website.  There are maybe 20 others that work this
> same way.

> I appreciate the insights!

> On May 12, 9:30 am, Aaron Pratt wrote:

> > 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?
> > Checkhttp://www.gooogle.com/andwatch 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.