More then one Domain name for one website

[Bruce Humphrey]

I have 3 domain names pointed at my main url/website , 4 domains all together, is this a good idea or bad? the other 3 are www.carpetcleaningoneof3ofmycities.com

 

[Chris A]

We have 2 excelcarpetcleaners and carpetcleaninghudson.com. the hudson has worked really well (in hudson obviously) and market the other one to other areas. I think were gonna do a couple more of the carpetcleaningmycities sites for other area.

 

[Brian R]

Doesn't hurt.

I have a few domains pointed to one or two sites.

I think it's more for the customer's than the search engines.

 

[Ron Werner]

do you have to have those domains hosted like you do your main site?
I was thinking of getting a few more domains, ie carpetcleaningsooke.co (.com) etc etc
If I need to host them I may as well put a home page on that domain then link them to one site.

 

[Brian R]

You can just buy the domains and do a 301 direct to whatever site you want. You don't have to have hosting.

Yahoo has a deal where you can get a domain name and 1 email for $35.00 per year.

But a domain name alone is about $10.00 per year.

 

[tmdry]

What Brian said.

 

[Ron Werner]

so which are the best domains?

 

[Hoody]

You can just buy the domains and do a 301 direct to whatever site you want. You don't have to have hosting.

And how do you do that ?

 

[fence]

You can just buy the domains and do a 301 direct to whatever site you want. You don't have to have hosting.

Technically speaking a 301 redirect wouldn't be needed or suggested in this scenario, instead a just set up a simple forward.

 

[Brian R]

You can just buy the domains and do a 301 direct to whatever site you want. You don't have to have hosting.

And how do you do that ?

When you buy a domain from Godaddy or other, there is usually a "manage your domain" area where you can set up forwarding. In the process of forwarding it will usually ask.

The point of the 301 Permanent forward is to tell the Googles that is isn't just a temporary forward....but it doesn't matter because you can always change it.

Go figure.

 

[fence]

The point of a 301 redirect is to tell the engines your site or page has moved and any credit this site/page has (pagerank), to please carry it forward to the new and permanent site/page.

If you have a brand new fresh domain that has never been used, and you want to point to a different domain, then just use a simple forward.

 

[XTREME1]

I have a significant amount of domain names
Neteorkhomeservices.com
Networkhomeservice.com
mynetworkhomeservices.com
networkhomeservices.co
many many more

 

[Brian R]

:|

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

I have a significant amount of domain names
Neteorkhomeservices.com
Networkhomeservice.com
mynetworkhomeservices.com
networkhomeservices.co
many many more

:shock:

 

[Ron Werner]

must have a healthy bill every month/year for your domains

 

[XTREME1]

I do have 12 domain names after cutting 8 this year I think it is money well spent. I am finally putting them into action this year with the small ads in local newspapers in a couple weeks that simply say Local Carpet Carpet Cleaning www.DuxburyCarpetCleaning.com Or Best Local Carpet Cleaning www.HanoverCarpetCleaning.com switch any of those towns with weymouth, Marshfield, Norwell, Scituate, South Shore, and a few others

 

[mishi]

Hi there,

I think having same domain more than one helps. With this one can do brand staging.

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