Domain redirects

[takahashii]

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if my mates site is johnsmith.com and he wants to rank for redfish.com if redfish.com was available and we bought it and redirected it to johnsmith once it ranked top would we incurs google slap?
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[Brendon]

If you just want to point a second domain at it, use a 301 and it'll be fine

[takahashii]

So the site that I'm going to redirect, just create a single, optimised page and then 301 it to the main one, and Google will not slap me?

Cheers Brendon

[martinthorne]

I may be wrong but...

301 redirects report "Moved permanently".

If you have www.site1.com and www.site2.com where www.site1.com is the main one and you want www.site2.com to re-direct to www.site1.com (I hope this is all making sence )

if google is given either site to index it will do however:
* if www.site2.com simply has (exactly) the same content then they will both be black listed as having duplicate content -- nobody wants this!
* if www.site2.com uses a 301 (Moved Permanently) redirect, google will index the new www.site2.com site but list it as being www.site1.com

(I'm starting to confuse myself )
in any case what this means is, if you use a 301 redirect google will only register it as being one website but all will be under the same url. This means that www.site2.com will not appear on the google results page.

If I'm wrong i will hold my hands up, or eat my hat or something.

Let us know what you think

[takahashii]

So altough site 2 doesn't 'appear' in terms of Google SERP, a single optimised (but with different content) page would therefore be sufficient and it would be listed organically on the basis of its domain and optimisation?

It's just that I seem to remember reading about Google slapping redirects

[martinthorne]

what i would probably suggest is this:

Don't use re-directs from one to the other. however, make sure your content (especialy the title and meta tags) in the page are different depending on the url.
If you do this, you may get ranked by google as if they were two different sites.
This means, theoreticaly, you could be ranked for both the top two unique results.
Also, anchor links from one to the other will be classed as external links, which (as i believe) increases your google ranking.

Alternatively, which would be alot easyer to manage:

You could have one unique homepage for site 2 which uses high concentration of keywords etc. but with links to site 1.
Any other url that is not directly pointing to the 'homepage' of site 2 could be 301 re-directed back to site 1
This would again give you external links and it would mean your users can still find the same information by typing in the two urls.

My suggestion for most people would be to go for the second option.

let me know if this makes any sence!

[Brendon]

If a site / page delivers a 301 error code, it won't be indexed at all - it'll just map to the redirect location

[Sharepointengine]

yeah ,
301 redirect is very easy way .....

:tup