Should You Buy Lot of Domains ?

webcosmo · 03-12-2008, 01:36 PM

I know a person who bought several hundred domains redirecting to his main site. Does it really help as per SEO or marketing anyway?

Does it help?
From what I have seen, it really doesn't help much. That person I mentioned above gets less then 10 hits from those domain redirects; whereas he have to spend several hundred dollars maintaining those domains. Unless they are premium domains or highly searched, buying tons of domains does not really help in marketing.

Best practice
If you happen to have decided to have many domains whats the best practice? Best would not be redirecting to your parent site. Best approach is having separate websites for each of them. Make sure they have different contents with links to your parent site. As you link to the parent site put your target keywords as link anchor text. If you do that, your domains will get indexed on search engines for different keywords. Also gets your parent site backlinks.

Source: forums.webcosmo.com/Topic1310-52-1.aspx

bogs · 03-12-2008, 05:28 PM

hmmm... didn't know that webcosmo have forum... nice..
by the way theres alot of individual who bought lost of domain. and yes its not ingenious to redirect to one site...

allreal · 03-12-2008, 06:22 PM

It's nothing new. If they have some PR juice worth passing... certainly. However, I would keep an eye on having the domains redirecting from different hosts.

nuttaphong191 · 03-13-2008, 11:15 AM

I have around 13 domains but now i think i need to reduce it (no time to operate)

sniperhiga · 03-13-2008, 02:03 PM

Google hates this type of marketing and the best example is BMW issue when their official website was removed from Google index. BMW came back after they fixed mistake and gave apology.

impius · 03-13-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sniperhiga

Google hates this type of marketing and the best example is BMW issue when their official website was removed from Google index. BMW came back after they fixed mistake and gave apology.

BMW was keyword stuffing, that was the main problem.

tdd1984 · 03-14-2008, 04:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by webcosmo

I know a person who bought several hundred domains redirecting to his main site. Does it really help as per SEO or marketing anyway?

Does it help?
From what I have seen, it really doesn't help much. That person I mentioned above gets less then 10 hits from those domain redirects; whereas he have to spend several hundred dollars maintaining those domains. Unless they are premium domains or highly searched, buying tons of domains does not really help in marketing.

Best practice
If you happen to have decided to have many domains whats the best practice? Best would not be redirecting to your parent site. Best approach is having separate websites for each of them. Make sure they have different contents with links to your parent site. As you link to the parent site put your target keywords as link anchor text. If you do that, your domains will get indexed on search engines for different keywords. Also gets your parent site backlinks.

Source: forums.webcosmo.com/Topic1310-52-1.aspx

Yes if there relevant domains with relevant links you can redirect them, but keep in mind its not something I would do with a lot of them a lot of them there has been companies that has out bought other companies and they 301 all there old domains we even did it the good thing is about that if I'm right your trust rank should pass