Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published in 2011. As of May 2021, it’s been updated and republished to reflect current information. The article was cleaned up, recommendations were reassessed, and references refreshed.
It happens all the time and causes me to scratch my head in complete confusion: someone I’m working with on SEO will own multiple domains for the same business. I don’t mean that they have a couple related domains, I mean they have the same business and same offerings or services on more than one domain.
(We also recommend these more recent articles about subdomains and the importance of domains for SEO.)
Owning multiple domains can be a real headache for SEO (duplicate content, splitting up domain authority, etc), but also just for the time and money it takes to manage them.
However, there is such thing as effectively using multiple domains (although I don’t recommend it).
There are some commonly employed tactics that are used with multiple domains, but the situations are very particular and not always worth the effort.
In the following examples, I’m going to keep an SEO perspective on these tactics and only lightly touch on other marketing sectors.
The Defensive Domain Buyer
Some businesses are worried that competitors will buy keyword-oriented domains and optimize websites on them, which could push their own site into obscurity. This can lead to a panicked shopping spree for domains that are even slightly relevant to their products or brand.
The idea is that if they own the available domains, there is less chance of a competitor beating them in the rankings.
While this tactic seems to make some sense on the surface, it will have no effect on your SEO at all. It’s also doubtful that it will really have much effect in blocking out your competitors.
You can’t think of all the domain variations and buy them all. Any competitor can outrank you by offering better content. Period.
As a side note, if you do this tactic, you had better make sure that all of your domains are redirected toward your main domain using a 301 redirect so that you pass full link equity onto the website where you conduct the most business.
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The First Page Domination Strategy
If you have multiple sites on the first page, you can get so much more traffic, right?
In theory, yes, and it has, on occasion, happened. However, there are some fairly serious drawbacks to this:
- Duplicate content woes— Because you can’t use the content from another site, you will have to write all new content. In many industries, it’s hard enough to come up with content for a single site, and it becomes a greater challenge when you try to allocate resources to get it written, optimized, and promoted. I wish luck to anyone writing content for several websites.
- Double branding all the way!— You have branding issues with two sites. Does one site become higher-end and the other the lower-end? Do you keep the prices the same? For that matter, what names are you even going to use on the site? Which site do visitors use to contact you? While there are certainly going to be exceptions (such as targeting different demographics), such a chaotic and divisive branding effort comes with a lot of risks and extra work.
Country-Specific Domains
This is less of a tactic, and more of a “must do,” and so we’ll make this my exception to the multiple domains rule.
It’s an exception because all of the problems above do not apply when you get into other countries. In fact, in order to have the best results in international SEO, you’ll need to have a country-specific TLD (or top-level domain).
For example, if you’re doing business in England, you will have a hard time ranking without a “.co.uk” domain.
You can still rank without a country level TLD, but it’s an uphill battle. And by uphill, I mean Rocky Mountains-type uphill.
A Better Strategy: SEO Resources and Indented Listings
One final (and big) point to that I would like to reiterate. If you really intend to own and run multiple domains and get these sites to show up in the search results, you will have to double your SEO work.
There are no shortcuts, freebies, or quick rankings that you can get, even if you are already ranking well for your main domain.
In fact, a new domain and site will be significantly harder to rank than a site that has history and some authority already built.
Rather than focusing on an entirely new listing, I suggest that going for indented listings (or secondary pages for the same site showing up underneath the first main listing) would be far more effective than attempting to achieve multiple domains in the same search.
SEO and online marketing in general continue to evolve to keep up with consumer and user trends. While some of these domain strategies may have been effective at one point, the industry has moved on. Make sure you’re keeping up.
Couldn’t agree with you more Scott. This always seems to come up in conversations and I try to sway people against this method.
Sure it may work on a small scale, and I have tried this method myself. But the drawbacks outweigh the benefits… IMO.
“One final (and big) point to that I would like to reiterate. If you really intend to own and run multiple domains and get these sites to show up in the search results, you will have to double your SEO work”… Another good point. Simply ranking on a keyword really does no good when you can do the same on your own site with minimal effort.
Dan
You write “Simply ranking on a keyword really does no good when you can do the same on your own site with minimal effort”.
Could you please tell me how you would do this?
Best
Surely multiple domains is a bad plan because it makes it harder to focus your energy? Isn’t it better to have a great position 1 listing for multiple terms than owning the page for one term?
Yes, having only one domain is absolutely a great idea. The point I’m really trying to get across is exactly that, that your work is double as a result of trying to use multiple domains.
Sadly, it doesn’t stop people from trying.
One is good, then two must be great!
Clients fall into this trap not only with domains but keywords as well.
Rapid rise and profit is only possible with singular focus at any one time, all else just produces mediocre results because of “dilution”.
We are feature driven consumers.
More buttons, bigger numbers of things, must mean better deal.
The most successful SEO’s I know manage to educate their clients differently.
Scott,
What about buying relevant domain, just to keep someone else from grabbing it? Even if you just use the additional domains to link directly to your main site? Would this cause possible conflicts for SEO?
This is interesting. I think you all should study and blog on the optimal way to park a domain portfolio, like what landing page ideas would be good for SEO or conversion?
I am currently going to school for web development and this topic is one that I’ve contemplated doing. I do have a second domain for one of my sites but am not using it and will likely not after this post. In the industry that I work in some of my competitors use multiple domains and are on the first page but I’d hate to think how much time and money went into their site.
You can use a 301 redirect from one website to another this can be handy if you did have multiple sites then you merged them all into one or something for example if you had a few services and had these domains and all of them ranked well for there exact keyword domains this is how you would do it.
The duplicate content issue is pervasive and tends to be my number one concern particularly when business owners rely on “webmasters/seo experts” to boost organic rank using this technique. Unfortunately, knowing about this duplication does not remove it. Your post is spot on…thanks
Scott, further to your well made point about multiple domains for different countries, I would like to further emphasize this point by advising companies that one domain name is no longer sufficient in reaching customers across the globe, and in this case, as you said, varying appropriate geographical domain names are a very wise choice.
Scott, I was very happy to find this article because someone told one of my clients it would help SEO to point a bunch of domains at their web site…. not create new sites just point them at the existing site. So the client went out and purchased a bunch of domains and now wants me to point them at their web site. I am fairly confident that this is going to do nothing and might even hurt their SEO.
From what you said above it sounds like the best way to use multiple domains on a single site is to use a 301 redirect… but chances are it still will not show up in SE results… but probably won’t hurt SEO either.
In the article you use ‘domains’ and ‘web sites’ interchangeably and confused me a little. I get the duplicate content issue and could not agree more. But what if my client wanted to put up a single page inside a site and point a domain at that page for advertising purposes – so when an actual human types in the URL it will go to that page – not trying to get search engine rankings with it. Would this hurt SEO?
Something we have done for some clients is use a second domain to build a single squeeze page site to promote a particular product or service. Usually these pages are sent out through Email and snail mail promotions. They might show up in searches but that is not necessarily the goal. We have not found that this hurt SEO of the company’s main site. Does this sound correct or am I missing something here?
Any further input you can give would be great.
Alfelt
I am also not a great fan of having multiple domain name. I would like to take one domain and then work hard to optimize it
Hi Scott,
I loved the post. Country specific domains is something I really want to test out. For some reason it took me a long time to get my head around how target to different locations. It really is not that hard.
Another cool tip is to make sure you add the backslash at the end of your backlink url.
So your backlinking efforts are not spread across multiple domain urls. For example “seo.com/” rather than “seo.com”.
Thanks again, SEO.com is full of awesome content.
nice article…and what Scott said, it is true that no matter how much article about the negative effect having multiple domains on SEO people read on the web, people don’t stop trying. Either way, this is very informative.
I agree with the Scott. It seems like two sites is a duplication of effort when it would make more sense to focus your efforts in one direction on one site. You also have to be concerned with how any duplicate content will be interpreted by the various search engines. In an effort to combat SPAM, duplicate content is viewed suspiciously. Why not just optimize different pages of your site for different keywords instead of setting up a totally new site. I guess the goal is to be 1 and 2 on the search results but more than likely the divided approach will cause neither to make the first page results – IMO
Content written here is very informative. Search engine always hates duplicate contents either its redirected or not. It is very bad from SEO point of view.
I know several people and businesses that have tried this, and like Scott said, when they realise that they can’t use the same content, it finally dawns on them how much effort is involved in maintaining the multiple sites. This time and money could be far better spent.
Scott, good point about the top level domains.
I always advise clients to get a TLD that relates to their country, especially if they are a small business and doing all of their business in that country. E.g. if they are a UK based restaurant, and only cater locally, they are better off going with a .co.uk domain.If they already have a .com, then I advise them to have their website hosted on UK servers (even if they have a .co.uk domain) and update their webmaster tools account for UK.
Yes, a main concern would be the tendency to have duplicate content and of course Google is death on duplicate content and does penalize sites accordingly. I agree that the idea seems to be to dominate the first page results of the major search engines; but that would be really hard to do and I’m not sure at the end of the day that that would improve your ROI all that much, for all the extra work of having to create so much more content for all the various domains. Also, you shouldn’t have to find out about the extra domains on your own…the company in question should tell you up front what has gone on in the past with their web presence which will create better synergy between you the SEO & the company you are representing.
Thanks for the comment. If only clients would be more upfront about telling us about the domains! Sometimes, though, the client just doesn’t any better. I really can’t expect every business to know that having multiple domain can be a problem (which is partly why this post was written). Hopefully this will educate some business owners out there to improve that communication.
Interesting topic indeed!
In regards of multiple languages i have the same experience but it also goes for product groups. My subdomains are far better of than my topdomains with sub groups. My top domain seems to be considered as jack of all trade…
I have other languages than english ranking top using .com as TLD. What I can see is that the sublanguages get less credit than the official start page, even though english is one of the subpages.
To get additional TLD was a good idea, that I will reconsider. Would it work just to do a re-direct to each language section? Would it be concidered as the main index page?
In any case its strange Google force us to do this when they expressly recommend us to keep all our companies webpages under one domain…
Scott,
What’s your take on the situation when you want to use separate domain for market segmentation? For example, a business consultancy may have various products services that are vastly different from each other. It’s all branded under the same name & brand, but the audience is different & the internal workflow/logistics of customer service & service deliver is different (eg, biz consultancy, events & training, advertising & marketing). Is this a case of having 2 or 3 different websites, each one serving the needs of each division/department? If so, would you implement it using different domains or using sub-domains (from a SEO perspective)?
In all honesty, it would probably depend on the industry and company. However, I would probably still argue keeping the domains to just one. The reason is really the same, that is, having two sites doubles the work you have to do.
Perhaps it helps to think of it this way: If you have one strong domain with a lot of authority and “link juice”, that benefit will pass on to the rest of pages and sections. The more work you do to your main domain, the more the rest of your categories and sub sections of the site will benefit. If a subcategory starts to naturally gain links and attracts some authority, that will also benefit the main domain and other sections. This is all assuming that proper internal linking is taking place.
If they were all on separate domains, the best you could hope for is just a few good links from each domain and you have less chance of getting that association.
However, it’s understandable that politics would prevent keeping to one domian, in which case, it’s highly recommended to link freely amongst the several domains. I would also try to keep to sub-domains as opposed to completely different domains.
Niclas, it would not work to redirect a country specific TLD to a language page. You would want your visitors to be redirected to the country specific domain as the page you redirect to will appear in the search results.
So what about domain forwarding? If you have multiple domain names because you don’t want your competition to buy names similar to yours… (which is how several web hosts market you.) How does having them all forward to the same website effect your SEO?
This doesn’t create any conflicts with SEO, it just doesn’t help with rankings. Unless you’re buying tons of domains, putting up landing pages and linking to your main site (as opposed to a 301 redirect). That’s a dangerous game, and would also provide practically no value.
Alfelt, it sounds like you’re right on track. Using vanity URLs like what you describe is completely fine and won’t hurt anything as long as 301 redirects are being used.
And yes, using 301 redirects will prevent the redirected domain from showing up in results.
As mentioned above, it does nothing for your SEO, as long as those domains are being 301 redirected. It doesn’t hurt or help your rankings. It only gives one less option for competitors.
The problem of multiple domain is the organization and the correct management. Multiple domain which duplicate content, redirect 301 to the one domain is a practice whith more problem and if managed badly can carry to destructive result
Hey Scott,
Great article. But I have one question that I am still finding trouble getting a direct answer. I have an electrical contracting company and am happy with our seo progress. Now, I’d like to delve into general contracting (which we are also licensed for) but I don’t want to discount my previous and ongoing seo efforts for my electrical site, which is the main bread/butter. So for example my site is branovercontractors.com (its all electrical) Is it ok if I buy lets say branoverconstruction.com with obviously slightly different content (focus on general contractor stuff), but same have the same phone number and branover in it? I’ve been trying so hard to get a quality answer. Your opinion is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
while all you’re writing is true, here’s a counter-question: would you put all your money in a single stock when investing?
there many ways a domain may be at a disadvantage (or even banned by google) and having several domains with unique content could help diversify in the internet market.
sure, the costs are higher but the same applies to diversifying your stock market portfolio as well. no rational investor would put all eggs in one basket…..
You’ve cleared many doubts on this issue. Great in-depth information. I must confess I fell for the trap, and bought a similar-wording domain to my main domain. Now after reading your post, I realize the pros and cons, and I think I need to sit and think what to do with it. Thanks a lot, Scott.
I agree with Sav.
I’ve seen too many webmasters get burned badly by the big G. Lose 90% of your domain’s traffic overnight, with no idea what you did wrong / what algorithm change caused it.
Thanks for the tip, but I’ll hedge my bets for now. Risk management. Worst case = i change my mind in 10 years & get to sell a bunch of aged domains. 😉
Nothing wrong with this tactic, just keep in mind you’re adding a lot to your workload. It might work out for you, but you’ll have lots of small websites and businesses as opposed to one potentially big, money making site.
Just a counter-thought to consider.
I would argue that Stocks and Websites are not equal. A stock will grow or crash regardless of what you do with it once you own it. A website and business will succeed only if you put your heart and soul into the effort (or get really, really lucky).
So, I again argue that having multiple sites will increase your workload significantly, or spread your workload too thinly.
Now if you have unlimited resources (aka money) then go right ahead. It’s just not a recommended practice to spread yourself to thinly with websites.
First, you may want to talk with an SEO professional directly on this question. I have an opinion on what you aught to do, but it’s based on the limited information you have here in your comment.
If you are looking to expand services and offer something completely different you what you have been offering, it may make sense to create a new website. Just keep in mind, it will require additional SEO effort and spend, and you will be starting from scratch which makes rankings more difficult to obtain. If you can use your existing site as a starting point, and can put the new practice there, you might have better success. Again, you might have to talk with someone about how to best handle that.
As for your address and phone number, you shouldn’t have any problems with posting them on both sites, as long as the rest of the content on the page is clearly unique and different from your original site. You’ll only run into problems when you try to create more than one Google Places listing.
Online shoppers are now getting wiser everyday. If they will see different domains on the first page then will see their content with the same message or duplicate, they will get easily annoyed. Therefore, it is better to just build one with lots of unique and informative information. In my opinion, this will increase the chance of visitors to keep coming to your site and bookmarking it.
What about Microsoft Officelive which allows you to have multiple domains automatically added and they all work with your site automatically?
Scott,
In the LAEC’s situation, would it be at all beneficial to introduce the new offering (construction) via new pages on the original branovercontractors.com domain, taking advantage of that domain’s current SERP, and then when those pages had built up some ‘traction’ of their own, transfer the content from those pages to the new domain (branoverconstruction.com), add throw up some 301s?
sorry for the run on.
I have a question. 🙂 What if a site is called “www.george.com” but George owns a landscaping business. If George has already established himself as “george.com” with business cards and marketing, signs etc… Wouldn’t it make sense for him to purchase “www.georgelandscaping.com” so that he has the word landscaping in his address?
I hope my question makes sense! I loved your article, so useful and articulate!
Nancy, nothing wrong, at all, with changing your domain. You’re talking about losing a generic domain for a more keyword centric domain, which is great! This post was meant to detract people from buying multiple domains with the belief that it would increase their rankings. When you switch domains, you absolutely need to keep the old one and make sure that a 301 redirect is being used.
“duplicitous” content
You have waken me up from my ‘illusion’ of the merit and benefit of having more-than-one domains. I, at least, have had two domains for a single business. Now I realize that it is not efficient… and not effective.
Thanks for the post
Hi,
I have a client who has a product that they want to sell in Australia, New Zealand, The UK.
They want to use tld names for each country ie. example.co.nz, example.co.uk, example.com.au, example.com
The index and contact pages of each site will be slightly different but the rest of the content will be the same.
Will they be penalised for this?
I am guessing no because numerous large corporation must do this.
Thanks
David
A couple of times in the past I have tried to build “sub” websites for niche products of our wilderness resort here in Canada. Each time I ended up with a revamped and better version of my original website because, although a niche product such as wildlife viewing seems to be separate from catch and release fishing, the actuality is that they both happen at our same resort which means the bulk of the content remains the same and the different activities actually support each other.
Reading this article I understand and am happy the secondary websites never worked out, although the efforts did work for me in revamping and improving my website. Thanks for sharing great information.
Wow. Great list! I have used a lot of them before, but it is nice to have them all in one place. I really should go .
I have a slightly different example which give me doubts.
For my upcoming business im thinking about purchasing a domain with several keywords included representing my business (for example: Jameshousesandappartments.com) As this domain name should be good in SEO point of view, offline marketing (example on tv radio or newspaper) such a long domainname is more difficult.
My id is to purchase a shorter domain (James.com) for offline marketing and redirect this domain to my main domain. (Jameshousesandappartments.com)
Good id? or any potential pitfalls?
Thanks in advance, Koen
Hi Scott
Great Post!
I’m running 2 country specific domains for the same website. (The domains are slightly different, not just a .com/.co.uk switch)
The content is the same apart from the product listings & prices, which is different depending upon what country you’re in.
Both domains are targeted to different countries in google webmaster tools.
D’you think Google would consider this tactic duplicate content and harm both website’s position in the SERPS?
Thanks again
Joe
All of this is great info and I was hoping that you (or someone else) can answer a specific question for me.
I own an e-commerce site (DrapeStyle – dotcom) where I sell custom silk drapes, linen drapes, etc. When I started the site I purchased a bunch of specific domains that I was hoping to be able to use one day. I purchased names like linendrapes.com, customsilkdrapes.com, etc.
When I use the Google Keyword Tool I find that, as an example, there are 12,000 monthly searches for “linen drapes”. Is there any way to leverage the domain “linendrapes.com” to capture some of these search queries and direct them to my primary site? Possibly create a blog or something?
One other thing, I own about 50 of these domains.
Thanks very much.
Hi Scott,
First up all I like to thanks all the expert for sharing your views.
SEO is outstanding every techniques are different, It is important that how we will react it.
And I am agree with scott that if we want to use the same domains then we must have to make unique content, need to target other countries to get good rank as well as need to host the site in targeted countries.
I am glad I gave this a read before buying a secondary domain!
Hello Scott, we close to going live with my mortgage related site and are questioning the domain or domains to use. Concern I have is it will be difficult to become relevant in the mortgage related search fields and not likely going to show up without throwing a bunch of cash it to rank higher! So SEO feels irrelevant at this time exept perhaps within our company group! I happened to purchase the company.com name which is _____mortgage.com as well as myname.com/ca (both) and should mention the web-designed/media company likes yet one last domain I own mortgagestoday.ca which she thinks she would like to promote cause its got a nice ring to it she feels! Should mention the company owns domain _____mortgage.ca and plan to have a site eventually but not as of yet!
First question…Any issue using the ______mortgage.com name if I like?
My last question then is…what are you feelings on using these three domains using a 301 redirect, be it each page, or home page does it matter?
I'm going to come in from the other side of the fence. I do have multiple domains for one of our company's products and it does work for us in the SERPS. However, the domains have been designed to work on a very broad spectrum services sector and have to cover a large number of keyword combinations. It's for this reason that I have arranged the domains and associated TLDs so that they have a decreasing number of in-bound links, depending upon competition and that those links are very keyword specific. The aim is to prevent having more than one domain show up in search results at any one time. but at the same time to cover such a broad spectrum of keyword results that if they were all on the same site, we'd be struggling. It has also proven great help with variations in search engine algorithms between Bing and Google, which means we have top 3 rankings on both engines, whereby the less important site has a greater weighting of keywords than the other. However, I'm careful to focus most of my energy on our main flagship site (the less 'keyword rich') and let the others bumble along, picking up a little traffic here and there (so as to avoid any form of Brand confusion).
However, this is not for the feint hearted and I've been extremely careful to avoid any form of spam generation. As a result, I've got 3 Authority domains that stick in the top 3 rankings of the 3 main Search Engines and have done so for the past 3 years- at present for some 2,500 keyword combinations.
I would advise the following though:
1) Matt Cutts has made it perfectly clear that there is no Duplicate Content Penalty in Google Serps.
2) Only your primary domain should be your main goal, a second or third domain will come in a very very distant second and third respecitvely.
3) My primary domain ranks for the most competitive keyword combinations, preventing any conflict of interest- thereby it gets 80-90% of total traffic- other domains are somewhere on page 6-7 of respective Engines for these keywords.
4) All domains are on completely different class C IP's.
5) All domains link back to the primary domain- this is designed to prevent them theoretically ' overtaking the primary domain'.
I have to admit throughout all this, I am extremely paranoid and although I'm fully aware that there is no duplicate content penalty, I hate creating spem anyway, so have ensured that each and every site is completely different to the last. I realise that it's extremely hard work to achieve, but if you want to get anywhere in life, there's no easy way to do it.
What about building up seperate websites with separate content? Is that a bad idea? If you can get more than one pages in in the top 10, isn't that a good thing?
Very good information!!! Its tough enough to seo one domain!
I have a client that I have recently taken on that owns 20+ domain urls and wishes to use each one as a different county for the UK. Using PHP certain areas of the site will change (phone numbers, title names etc etc) but fundamentally the rest of the site will stay the same.
As there is going to be one TLD would it be better to use the rest as add on domains and then point the to sub directories on the main server.
I had 3 domains, two of them were going right to the content of the main website. After this article I created 301 redirects, which do the same thing, but now the site isn’t viewing the links of the other domain.
Thanks! I also am using this is a paper I am writting about my marketing plan. 🙂
Chad
You don't cite any data or case studies in your post. Can you share what informs your opinion?
Hi Scott,
Really interesting article. I really appreciate the quality of the information provided by everybody here. I've been searching google for a while now and this is the most helpfull info so far.
I wanted to see what's your opinion on the following issue. Centralparktours.net is my main domain it's been up for 3-4 years and it has a good pr. If I decide to purchase centralparktours.com and .org, both never had any content on them, but have been registered 9 years ago, do you think I can do something to improve my SEO and visibility? The fact that they are old should definitely bring some benefit, right? I wouldn't do a 301 on the .net because I might loose some link juice.
What would you reccomend ?
Thanks!
I planned to buy many domain for my site but after reading this post, I think it's no longer necessary to do so, just one is enough.
Thank you very much for the tip and useful post.
Hoang Long
Have read through the information above but do have another question. Let's say I own a car dealership called Joshua's AutoStore (assume the domain is joshuaautostore.com) and we sell Ford and Chevy cars in the city of Charleston. Does it make sense to also buy fordcharleston.com and chevycharleston.com so that we could pick up additional traffic if someone enters "Chevy Charleston" or "Ford Charleston" into a google search? Assuming that it does make sense, I'm guessing that a 301 redirect should be done from both of those to my main site of joshuaautostore.com, correct? Thanks-
Hey guys,
What about if someone wanted to use seo for reputation managment to push down negative content. As most companies have negative content because you can't please everyone. I think mutliple domains would be good for that right? Is it better to use social networking sites or other social sites as digg. Also it is different to protect a name or an individual company.
mike
I work for a plumber who wants to do this. Can you explain more about 301 redirects and why they should be used.
Scott, You each and every blog give some useful and deep information over differents Topics. Thanks. Keep It Up.
Thank you Scott, you just my task of convincing some clients that this is a dumb idea even easier. Focus and persistence pays off but not if you have to do this for 12 domains instead of just one.
After all, you can only get them to come to one website, and in fact just one page, it's the one that ranks at the top of Google.
Sorry if I am beating up the 301 redirect subject.
I have two domains, one is 3 years old, and the other is 4 years old. The 3 year old is the main site, while the 4 year old domain does a 301 to the main site. The 4 year old domain was never developed into a website.
I read online that a domain's age is one of the factors in search engine ranking. Is it your position that the 4 year domain name with 301 to the main site has no searching engine ranking benefit?
Lastly, my business has a .com domain, but we also sell in Mexico. Is there any benefit to getting our business name in .com.mx and doing a 301 redirect? I'm wondering whether this will help with Mexico search engine search? Or is it better to develop a new site for the .com.mx domain?
So is having the exact same site on 2 different domains illegal by google or really bad?
Super interesting article. I have ONE product I sell (Headband Holders). It is a patented product that is brand new to the market, and we have had huge success in the past year on our website orders (going from zero to hundreds sold per month in less than a year) with no advertisement… only SEO.
Recently I have purchased several domain names related to this (headbandholder.com is "manin" domain name and has been at the top of Google for months). We also bought headbandholder.tv, headbandholder.mobi, and several others… I have not yet done anything with these sites; and I am wondering if a 301 redirect is wise (I was just going to do that originally) or now perhaps just "sit" on them!
Also… for International domains (co.uk, co.au, co.nz) I own these too; and am getting ready to do more International. Do I need to create brand new sites / content for each of these in order to get ranked in country (as opposed to some sort of redirect?) The content would be identical; and I am looking to minimize the work. If I can redirect these and get ranked, that would be excellent. I have not been able to figure out if this is the case. Thanks for any advice.
I am on the same boat as Joe, I have a landing page that has a link to the main page and I want to put the same landing page on several different domains. Would that hurt me? I was going to make different descriptions and keywords for each but leave the page the same
I think I read it somewhere up there when they were asking about international domains and they were asking that if they could just redirect to the main site ( a dot.com)in order to save all the double work . He answered that the site to which they were redirected would end up getting the top rank instead of the local one– or that is how I interpreted the information. So if I’m advertising in Colombia, but I redirect them to Spain then, the Spanish site would get the top rank in the Colombian Google because that is the site where people are spening most of their time clicking.
I hope he says that no that is not how it works because it sounds like a lot of work to do it several times…but if it must be done…
It is probably better to do it all over again per country because languages are different per country even if they supposedly speak the same language.
Hi Scott,
How about if I have multiple domain and re-directed to one domain? Is it work for SEO?
Scott,
Was wondering if you could clarify sometinhg for me. I have a main domain from which I have created a subdomain on. I’m terrrified of having duplicate content. The subdomain(s) I’m creating are for my consultants. These consist of one page that basically carries the same ‘brand’ as the main site. The only duplicate information is in the ‘widgets’. And even then the links within those ‘widgets’ is different on every subdomain as it pertains to my consultants. Every consultant basically would be blogging on their own subdomain. Is this considered duplicate content and do you think it will hurt my rankings? Also, is it even possible that after only creating this subdomain yesterday, it could already affect my main domain? I’m paranoid and it seems like my main domain has lost ranking (or completely disappeared from Bing and I think Yahoo. Google remained the same. Thanks in advance!
Hey – sorry I’m bait late to the party, but I’m looking to launch an Australian web based service in NZ, and possibly the UK, so this is really relevant, and one of the few places I’ve information that is actually helpful.
I guess my question is simply do you duplicate the content for each top level domain fully, effectively creating multiple stand alone sites for each market, or do you have only the sales pages separated with the “application” pages centralized (and possibly 301 redirected)?
Any and all advice appreciated – thanks.
Hey sorry in the above example. did not mean for it to link to a real site. If you could replace that with below I think it would be better.
But what if you have say three sites (named similar) and at two of the sites you have a link to the main site. Example(not real sites that have this problem)
main site TheBigManxyz.com
alt site BigManxyz.com contains the text/link Please visit thebigmanxyz.com
alt site2 HugeManxyz.com contains the text/link Please visit thebigmanxyz.com
thanks for any thoughts
Just wanna share, that I had many old sites that are not active, so I tried something new, pointing some 15 unused domains to a single new site using 301 redirect. I will post here once I find if this tactic worked or not.
Hi, i am trying to make SEO to a site that have multiple domains and duplicate content to some other domains. The problem is that i was ok for 10 keywords (in top 10) and sudently they dissapear! The problem is the duplicate content, what cause this trouble?
Do you guys think that the owners of link networks, own only o ne domain? Do you see the benefit in owning 800 PR9 sites? Good, point made!
Our normal business is travel. At different times of the year we do contract charters with a partner. While it is fine to promote the charters on our site, our site is not a good url for adwords advertising.
Would it make sense to have unique sites set up just for these promotions that could have much more effective urls that people would be more likely to click on through adwords?
I can think of a legitimate and – perhaps- important reason to buy up multiple domains: trademark and copyright protections. If you intend to own a trademarked or copyrighted property, you need to take affirmative steps to protect it. If you buy up the “.biz”, “.org”, “.info”, “.net” … etc extensions of your domain name and redirect them, then you are building solid proof that you intend to own your business name, as well as establishing a date when you began to take affirmative action to protect said name. If companies like Coca-cola don’t buy up the varied extensions of http://www.coca-cola.com, they may have weakened their position that they intend to protect the name.
Lost in Vancouver,
The more specific the URL is the better it will convert. The other thing about doing separate sites, (url included) is you can have fully customized content, which not only will you get the click, it will lead to higher sales conversions.
Another benefit of this approach is your SEO for each of these dedicated sites is going to be a natural pickup as well. It does however multiple your SEO firepower requirements.
Say you got hold of 5 keyword phrases that were 100% matching for what you wanted, you hosted them on different servers to your own, each domain has new server, linked the keywords/phrase back to your main site.
So, in reality a complete stranger is recommending your website, this can no way affect your rankings surely otherwise you can bring your competition down? It must help you.
Sorry, on the above post I meant to say 5 keyword domains……
Lets say i have a website company called newrealty.com
Wouldnt it help me get more business not for ranking purposes to buy domains with relative keywords to help me rank and getdeals.
As in:
Los angeles real estate company.com
Or
North hollywood real estate company .com
What do you guys say about that
Hi Scott…. Doesn’t it help if the user searches with the words of one of the multiple domains?
For example, lets assume that my main web site, where all other sites redirect to is ‘myshop.com’.
If I have the following multiple domains:
buydvd.com,buymusiccd.com and the user googles ‘buy dvd’ wouldn’t ‘buydvd.com’ appear in the top results?
This would help me, because if the user then clicks on ‘buydvd.com’, it will redirect to my website(‘myshop.com’).
Thank you very much for your help.
I think the problem is most people want to have quick wins and they think the more domains they have the better and easier it will be to rank – Content is king and writing interesting unique content that ranks is not the easiest thing in the world – Having to rewrite that a few times for multiple sites for each page, will be a wasted effort – and you will see no quick wins!
Focussing on making your main domain SEO friendly, informative, user friendly, should be your number one priority.
What do you suggest when a client has a sub-project within a larger offering and wants a different domain name to direct to one section of their main site? Example: Client A has a company that has just published a book. They don’t want to build a whole new site for the book, they just want to add a robust new section to their site for the book and have a URL for the book that directs to that section. If a user types in clientsnewbook.com and it forwards to clientsmainsite.com/thenewbook – will that be confusing for users?
When the kids grow up and have over 2,000 domains pointing to 100 domains that rank for 100,0000 top paraphrases and is sipping mi-ties on a beach and pulling in $65,000 a month off affiliate sales deposited directly into his account, then come talk to me on how this is bad….. 🙂 There are some VERY misinformed people out there….
Hi I can’t agree more with you on this one. I had a client who, once they had understood the concept of keywords and exact match domains wanted to buy up 5 domains all at once and rank them all. Doesn’t look good thanks for the clear advice
you are right… multiple domains are not good for seo.
Excellent article. I have just located many domains pointed at my main site. Duplicated content is a real issue, and i do think as time goes on google will be more strict
Hi i currently have a client who i have advised to change his domain name to a more relevant keyword related one and have the old domain name redirect to the old site with the new domain name if it is done with a 301 redirect that should be ok in the eyes of google?
As per my my experience multiple domains is still good idea if you want to dominant in search engine.
Hi, I’ve just noticed I’ve that mistake, well i wanted two domains, but one for doing one thing, and another one to do something different and unrelated. But just when i went to edit it is when I’ve noticed that I’ve got exactly the same content, and it’s like a nightmare.
Is there a way I can revert this? e.g. transferring only one domain to another hosting page?
Hi, I’ve just noticed I’ve that mistake, well i wanted two domains, but one for doing one thing, and another one to do something different and unrelated. But just when i went to edit it is when I’ve noticed that I’ve got exactly the same content, and it’s like a nightmare.
Is there a way I can revert this? e.g. transferring only one domain to another hosting page?
I really hope you could help me. I thought it was easier to handle two different web pages from the same place and with the same log-in, but I don’t know anything about domains, and I think I must have confused it with web-site 🙁
i wish i had read this article 3 months ago
Hi, we recently decided to start business in another country and have purchased the appropriate domain name, however the products will be the same on both domains but is .com.au and another is .co.uk is this a problem?
I have a competitor that has numerous well ranking sites that offer the same exact product, which affects my organic rankings! I want to report them to google. Should i do that? Can i do that? will it even matter?
Michael. Please share your experience. I am interested to know what you have done with multiple domains, intentionally or un-intentionally, and the result. I have read the article, but I am not convinced since I have seen implementations that worked, and I am asking my SEO team to work on it. Let mew know, privately of you prefer ilya at wisetrend dot com. Thanks.
I’m a Uk web designer and a customer wants the same website (brochure website of products for wholesale market) to be found in the UK and in South Africa – under these circumstances, would it be a good idea to have a .co.za domain pointing to the .co.uk domain ( or vice-versa) so that we only have one website with one set of maintenance and one set of backlinks? Would this acutually help with the local serps? Would appreciate any advice if you have experience with this.
I understand what you say about multiple domains with similar offerings, but our bricks and mortar business has different areas – office supplies, art materials, gift pens etc. Should we have multiple domains with specialist content reflecting the different business areas we are in? Or should we have one site reflecting all our business areas?
Hi! Thank you for sharing for expertise.
I recently joined a non-profit and currently we have tons of aliases that don’t redirect to one single site. And the ranking and web traffic has been decreasing. What should I do now? What are some long term solution? Simply a 301 to all the aliases will do?
Thank you!
Anita
I have a question which is very important for me, and help from all experts.
i have a .net domain from few years, and i set its Geographic target to a country pakistan in google webmaster. now I need and get another .co.uk domain to attract my uk visitor. but the problem is, i have the same content of website which is in joomla, and i wish to use same website data and contents so I don’t need to change/update on both sites.
But I dont wanna lose my seo performance. what would be the best solution ?
Great post, i liked this post. Yes, it is true that multiple domain is affecting website ranking in Search engine, so we need to learn, how to deal with these kind of situation. Keep your ranking in search engines resolving multiple domain names.
@Zack, to answer your question, you have to remember that Google penalises duplicate content, so the idea of trying to use the same content on two different domains .net and .co.uk is not a good one.
Better would be to rewrite the content so that it is still the same meaning but is original.
Hope this helps, oh and also you will have to double up your seo efforts as now you have two target websites to rank well. ; )
I can say that this duplicate content is bunk. I have a customer that decided to add 7 domains having to do with one service that he provides. All we did with these sites was capture the RSS feed from his main site. No other seo was done to this site and he still has multiple sites coming up on page 1 and this is over a year later.
Scott,
I just read your article. I have two domains that have the same content. I want to follow your advice, so, what do I do with the secondary domain? Should I have it point to my main domain?
Jim Turner
Orlando, FL 32801
I have a subdomains in which I host live blogs. They push out content all the time and get indexed by google. Recently I’ve noticed a huge increase in traffic and noticed that my live blogs (which run continueosly) are getting indexed. Problem is, Google will index “live blog#1” and “live blog#2” on the same page under certain keywords.
I then did a 301 redirect from my live blog to my main domain and noticed an increase in positioning on searches. I also noticed that my “live blog#1” or “live blog#2” were no longer showing up on keywords searches and it was now being replaced by my main domain.
After a few weeks I noticed a slight decrease in posiitoning and I decided to undo the redirect and lost positioning even more. Can anybody tell me whats going on?
Good Read! I have recently started getting into seo and I was unaware that this was not good for seo ( I bought 3 domains) that were all the same and pointed to my main roof cleaning site.. My SEO guy told me to read this article, so now ill just be parking these other 2 sites until I can afford to create them as individual sites . At that point hopefully I can then do it up right and get 3 sites on the first page!
Great article. One simple question that I cant read from the posts here. We own more than 70 country specific TLDs for our trademark and dont know if we would gain advantage of using them or not. As far as I can read from your article you do recommend country specific TLDs, using 301-redirects, however what I cant read is if they should point to similar language version of the site and the domain refers to? Or is it OK to point to same main website language all of them – in our case english in our main language?
Hi, I have a question for ya.
So I have one main website but have purchased multiple domains that point to my one main site. Should I include these domain names in my meta keywords? Will this help or hurt my SEO. Thank you in advance. Kat
“I consider this to be one short step away from spam.” Agree. Spam is irritating in any form. Why put potential clients off from the get-go?
Duplicate content is annoying. Duplicate content is time-wasting. Duplicate content is irritating. Duplicate content is aggravating. So is content which purports to be original but isn’t.
I have registered more than 100 domain using keywords related to our business.
Should we make simple one page website for all other domain and redirect to my main website?
Or Just simply 301 redirect to all domain to my main website. Is this Going to help me in SEO in any ways?
Or any other option which can help me in SEO.
Thank you very much for your help.
I am starting a travel guide for an specific country if I get a .do domain name will help me to rank better than a .com domain ?
What about for a photographer? I want to have separate sites for my weddings and portraits, but I don’t want to double the SEO, as you said with two separate domains. I was considering using weddings.afsphotography.ca and family.afsphotography.ca but is there any point to doing so?
I am targeting two countries for my website. Is there no way that I can have a landing page within my website directed at the second country and tell google somehow that this particularly landing page is meant to rank in the second country?
I would appreciate any comments on the following scenario:
Client has a single, desirable domain name for the target industry. Client notices that search ranking is getting replaced by companies with similar name, but Geo-specific, where the competitor puts the name of the *city* in the domain name. Presumably search engines pick up on this, and give them a higher rank.
Client then goes and buys another domain name that has the geo name included, in hopes of trumping the competitor. This results in 4 duplicated websites which can be summed up as: Google has further reduced the original branding. The newer domain names are coming up high on searches, but not the “primary target search keywords”. Bing, more or less acknowledges the geo specific sites as higher ranking. However, the traffic generated is overall not as good as it was on the single original website.
Question:
What do you do with this situation? What is the best way to shut down the alternate domains and focus on, what appears everyone is agreement with, improving on the single original site? Do you shudder the secondary domains? Or, keep a geo specific domain? Do you keep all them, but redirect to the primary website?
Any help would be most appreciated!
If you have a .com and and want to keep people from getting the .net .org .biz and all the extensions you could buy them all and just park them, over the course of a year they may pay for itself. Parking a domain is where you only place adds on the site and earn money from clicks. Lots of sites will do it for you.
OK, I have .com domain and I want to buy ccTLD for my country.. Can I part my new country specific domain under .com that is already has PR 3. Will I make something bad if I have .rs parked under .com. I bought another domain because it cintains key word for my business, my first domain is name of my company and does not contain key word for products I am selling online. Thanks for answer!
I’d like to ask for clarification on a point raised here.
I have a client that has a ‘main website’.
He has chosen to register various domains relating to his business.
1) He has some of these domain names pointing to his main website, there is no content on these sites, just simply point to his main website.
Does this hurt SEO or will this be ok? (Should he be using any kind of 301 Redirect)
2) He has chosen to set up two or three of these domains as fully fledged websites with ‘selected’ products from his range, to make customer selection on a targeted product range easier for the user, without crowding them out with ‘choice’
Would it hurt to have links from these sites to his main site ?
I have read conflicting information on the first point
Many thanks
hello all, I have developed a wordpress site as clickrewari.com and have all data here. This site has some coding problem. Now i want to change the theme and design completely. By doing so, my ranking will go low. Isn’t it a better to use the same data with a different theme on my other domain? i.e. clickrewari.in. Is it SEO friendly? If you have any other solution, please suggest me.
what about with www and without www. does it make any differents for google, i mean http://www.mywebsite.com and http://mywebsite.com websites for my host was different and i have to add some lines to .htaccess file and know it works for both.But i would like to know what does google do for that.
Thanks
The google juice for each page follows the page. When you redirected blog# 1 & 2 their juice transferred to your main domain. Because you effectively de-indexed them they no longer gained juice in addition to your main domain. Your main domain began to decay to its former level plus some juice from the traffic passed through the 301 redirect. When you pulled the redirect your main domain lost the increased juice from the traffic so it dropped again. At that point google may be penalizing you for the shuffling. If you don’t want the blog indexed replace the 301 and then leave it alone. If it is ok with you that the blog content is indexed then let it be w/o redirect. I think the blog links would tend to authenticate and give authority to your main domain.
If you have a.com domain however are doing business in say Australia and the UK, is it possible to set up your country specific domains as .com.au and .co.uk without losing your SEO Rankings that you have for the .com? Would you still rank for the same terms you do on the .com but it would show the .com.au and .co.uk results to the users from AU & UK?
Fast forward your blog to 4 years later and your advice is as good as gold. With all the new .domain extensions our clients are under the impression that if they own all these domains redirecting them will get them to rank higher or more at a scale domination for those “keywords” in the domain. Still not the case, nor will it ever revert to that. Google stepped it up again resulting in a better user experience online for content that earns its ranking on top.
Hi Amy,
Figured you might have your answer by now, but here it is for anyone else reading and wondering what the answer is. Each website domain, be it .com or .com.au or .co.uk – are all individual domains in their own right. One doesn’t influence the other in rankings unless of course one of them with high authority were to reference or link to the other site, in which case there would be an effect. Hope this clears it up.
Does this include 301 redirects? It sounds like Amy is duplicating content as opposed to redirecting?
Hi Scott,
I agree with you its not a Good to have a multiple domains for a single websites it doubles your work and it becomes a tedious task to promote that website.
I want to know if any website has 3 sub-domain than how we will promote that website. What are the key features to promote that Website.
What about age domain ? I have a .info which is the oldest one and a .fr which is a little older (less than one year), is that better to use the oldest domain or the .fr for a french website ?
I think you will be better off with the .fr domain for a French site. You can 301 redirect the .info domain to the .fr domain.
For a 301 redirect to my .com website from international domains, do I gain or lose SEO value? My assumption is that my content from the .com website is automatically transferred to the localized search engines such that over time my existing content will see search benefits on the local search tool. Is that a correct assumption?
I have a large-ish website selling shop equipment. But the types of products are very different. I.e. Shelving, trolleys, mannequins, display stands, counters, etc etc.
I feel customers can easily get lost in the site, and to get customers to feel the site is an authority is very difficult. Add to this the levels of subsections with each category of product, for example; Trolleys could have subsections such as, supermarket trolleys, warehouse trolleys, glass handling trolleys, cash and carry trolleys, board trolleys, order picking trolleys, cage trolleys and many more…means customers can easily miss the sub sub sections.
So would I be better off splitting my 1 large website into say 5 all with unique content from the other?
I want the customer to feel like this site is brilliant for say trolleys, or shelving, and easy to find that exact product.
I worry as I grow my product ranges, customers will get ever more lost in 6k, 10k, 15k of individual products or miss the product they might have bought.
Also, from an SEO point of view if the home page is all about trolleys, rather than all types of productsvin the shop Equipment world, it’s going to rank more highly, as customers don’t bounce, the home page is full of high hitting keywords, images etc rather than a small link…
Your thoughts are welcomed..??
James
if multiple domains for same nature business are hosted on a single ip is that also bad for seo ?
What happen, if 2 different domains have the same article and both use the canonical tags pointing to their own domain, in this case how google decide that which one is original and which one is copied?
Hi, I’m hoping to get some 2017 advice on our business and how to respond to companies wanting to help us with Google search and other online marketing strategies. I have some experience writing website content, and a very simple understanding of how SEO works, so bear with me. About a year ago, I created a simple cookie-cutter website to get us started so I could generate invoices, have a company email, and have a website URL to print on our business cards. We weren’t ready to get business from our website (via search engines, etc.) at that time as my husband was doing most of the work on his own. Long-story short, we now have enough employees to continuing growing our business and have hired a couple of different SEO companies for what I thought were different purposes, but who have now duplicated our content and created new domains for our business. I am really happy with the second company as far as the website design and the results from their keywords ads. But I did have toen revised (mostly rewrite) their “copied” content, which I discovered they use for similar type of companies across the US, yet target SEO for local results. So now that content is unique and I like their design, etc. but I assume they own the domain name, so I don’t want to cancel or close out our original website. Not to mention our email addresses come from our site (the one listed on this comment is the one we own). We just hired a 3rd company for what I though was for local mobile ads and a YouTube video that would point back to the adversite, but now they’ve come up with a whole new domain name too! I don’t want people seeing 3 different domains for our business, and I definitely don’t want the companies we hired to take my original content and use it across the country for other businesses. Any advice on how we can move forward and not hurt search results? Thanks!
Hello,
I have 18 domains 1 spanish, couple of dutch, couple of german and remaining english. Besides, I have 3 main websites English, Dutch and German which are big websites with good content. The other 18 websites also have unique and good content. I have connected all websites to each other through links from content and also connected to the 3 big websites through sidebar widgets and links from content. Can you please let me know should I stop doing this and close all other helping websites to avoid any kind of Google penalty in future.
Thanks
Gaurav
Well I prefer single domain rather than multiple domains and I also advise my clients to use single domain.
Hi guys,
I own a small business and made a mistake by making a .com website,
and I work only in 1 country (Bosnia and Herzegovina). It’s not highly
competitive with other websites.. mby 10 others.. but I think .com is really hurting me.
I thought maybe that the same domain .ba, or domain with the keywords most people use, with redirect to my website could help. Would it affect my site rankings in a bad way?
I have a Facebook page, that i use for ads, and on every post i link to my website,
some posts get quite a few shares. Can this help with ranking?
Not really SEO guy, but trying to wrap my head around it.
As I didn’t see any results for many people who paid for SEO service, and didn’t have any result, with “experts” here, and don’t think I could afford true expert.
Would be really grateful for any advice.
Are you saying that owning the .net and .org version of your .com, and 301-ing them to redirect to your .com is a bad idea even if they have no content of their own?
What about a situation where a company offers multiple different products or services.
Does it make sense to purchase a domain specific to that particular product and redirect it to that product page?
I have a few sites running to the same business now & find myself doing much of the same SEO work for both. Writing different content is the most difficult thing to do. Its fun though so its work but not really. . Happy Holidays!
I found this post pretty interesting however I had some ideas that might content with its concept. Having two domains for a local brick-and-mortar please will not hurt the ranking as it will prove for additional citations that displays the same name address and phone number also known as nap information. This can work in the favor for a business especially the Google my business profile or GMB page. Please share your thoughts.
Hi Scott,
I’m working on my actual website now as we speak. Just to clarify, it seems there is a big difference in just merely buying and registering domain names to keep the core site name your own, and actually having the multi name sites go live. Am I right or wrong? I can definitely see a SEO jam up with indexing one’s multiple live sites.
I’ll likely just get one site name and that’s it. But, like others, I’ve always been told to buy as many domain names as I can to prevent name piracy.
Any and all comments and feedback are welcome. Thanks, and I’m glad I found this site…good stuff!
Sarah
Sarah,
You are correct, owning domains to keep your competitors from buying them is different than building out sites on each one.
Typically, I’d only recommend buying 3 domains to keep from your competitors—.com, .org, and .net.
You absolutely do not want duplicate content or websites on each of the domains because the search engines will penalize you. … Once again, multiple domain names pointing to your main site will not help your rankings, though they may help your traffic if they are being used. Nayem Mahmud
Duplicating content on multiple sites will have a major impact on SEO. A business can buy multiple domains but not to duplicate content.
We own a domain for both .in & .com
We have some temporary domain issue as of now, so we would like to grow our traffic on one of the website. Is it the best thing to do to have both http://www.autokartz.in and http://www.autokartz.com, then after few months redirecting it to one of the above & keep one either http://www.autokartz.com or http://www.autokartz.in. I would like to understand in terms of SEO view. What would you suggest?
Thanks!
Hi Scott,
I’m interested in the Country Specific Domains approach. In particular I’m about to launch a website on a .com domain and the idea is to point visitors from different countries to specific subdomains (e.g. it.xxx.com, uk.xxx.com, es.xxx.com etc…) but I was also thinking to get TLDs for the specific countries which would “more or less” translate the name of the .com one and just redirect from the “national” TLDs to the relevant subdomain of the main TLD (e.g. aaa.it would redirect to it.xxx.com).
I don’t see a “duplicate content” issue as the “national” subdomains will have different products/articles/wording but I was wondering if this approach would be correct (effective) SEO wise.
Thanks
It surely takes us a lot of effort and hard work to build country-specific Top Level Domains, but it’s been the easiest way to avoid duplicate content, and to manage multiple SEO strategies. Our https://www.tripletrad.com/ has been completely US-oriented (also geographically), while the https://www.tripletrad.com.br/ has been purely Brazilian. Not even our TLDs for Spanish speaking countries have content written the same way, as Spanish variants may differ from country to country. Another good idea is to come up with different side projects for each TLD, always targeting at solving people’s problems locally.
How does google view having say 50 different landing pages on top of your primary domain. These landing pages aren’t really designed for SEO value, so much as for generating a higer conversion percentage based on geographic location. For instance 50 unique state landing pages. Does google view hundreds of landing pages linking to a primary domain the same as a blog farm? Any advice around this would be much appreciated.
I have two website for my same name of company. is it good to keep both site? is it bad for SEo? i have different content but same company name. and service also offers same
If I use two domain name the same website such as http://www.company.com and http://www.company.in, Is it good for SEO
One of my client has gotten multiple domains for the same niche where I am currently working on them to rank all the websites on the first page. After reading this article, I am much skeptical if I can work on them properly because there are 4 domains and each domains have same locations. I think this article will help my client to know that this practice is wrong.
Thanks to the author because after reading this, I am more conscious with what I am doing and I think I will have to make a different approach to work on my projects in up coming days.
Hi Scott,
Great topic to discuss as we are in 2020 and this is still important for SEO.
In our opinion, instead of working with multiple domains, focus all your SEO efforts on one single domain.