If you are thinking of buying multiple domains for your website, be sure you follow the guidelines set forth by the search engines. For instance, if your main domain is www.your-website.com, you also might want the domain www.your-website.net. But what if you want www.my-website.com and www.my-website.net as well? That's fine.
Just make sure that all your domains point to (forward to) your main URL, www.your-website.com via something called a 301 redirect. It is the only way to ensure that the search engines will not penalize your website. If you want all of these domains to be separate websites, make sure they all have separate and original content and are not mirrored sites. Search engines have been known to ban websites that duplicate one another. Contact your web developer or hosting company to make sure your extra domains are being forwarded via a 301 redirect.
Ask questions or post comments here about buying multiple domains and how 301 Redirects can save you from getting banned in the search engines. Forwarding domains via 302 redirects are temporary and are not the same.
Posted on
Tue, June 8, 2010
by Christopher Nelson