Can you suggest whether I can use two domains for the same site. I want to have a site with .co.uk and .us and will use same site in 3 copies. Is it legal.

Great question, Rajesh. I would suggest that you cannot, or at least should not have the same content under more than one URL. The problem is what Google calls a "duplicate content penalty". In a nutshell, don't have the same content accessible through more than one Web page address, whether it be different domains or just different pages on the same domain.

What about purchasing another domain and simply redirecting it to the original location of my content?

Michael, that can be a viable solution, but you need to ensure that you don't get into a situation where you have the same page of content accessible through more than one URL. That is, if you have, say, xx.com as your existing domain and also want to have yy.com, you need to make sure that you use what's called a 301 redirect so that when people -- and search engines -- go to yy.com they are redirected to xx.com properly.

But will having multiple domain names redirecting to a single website actually affect search engine results? For example if I have brand name as the main domain name but point to it with several domain names that have keywords in them, will this help with organic search results?

if you 301 redirect domain1.com to domain2.com all links pointing to domain1.com will count as links to domain2.com.
so if you hade 5 page rank 3 links to domain1 and 5 page rank 3 links to domain 2 and you 301'd it would be the same as if
you just had 10 page rank 3 links going to domain 2

I have a blogger blog and have never purchased a domain name, so my name is very long. I am concerned with losing seo. I was thinking of doing a redirect from my old verylong.blogspot.com name to a new simple address. Do you thing this is the best way to go? Will my seo get affected?

Will a domain name with the keywords separated by hyphens work as well as one without?

It is generally accepted that .com, .net and .org are the best three domain suffix's/ Will having a .us or .biz or .info decrease its ranking in the search engines or not. What's the main reason why .com, .net, and .org are the best?

I don't think that the .com or .net domains are inherently better, I think it's more a factor that most of them have just been around for longer and have more content on their sites.

Dav, I have a domain which was made on the basis of Textile Engineering. But unfortunately there was a problem of indexing on that domain. So i made a subdomain and blogging over there.

Now the main domain is fixed and start to blog on the main domain as it is DMOZ listed and have PR3.

I would like to blog about Domain & hosting related topics there but the domain is related to textile and have a textile related keywords there.

What should I do now? Can i use that domain to blog about non-textile related topics? Will i have any problem with Google or SEO?

Thanks.

I would say that you'll have no problems at all blogging about topic X on a domain that's about an unrelated keyword. If it's confusing to readers that might be an issue (like "best-life-insurance" being about knitting patterns) but otherwise Google will just evaluate each page based on its usual criteria. Good luck!

My co-author and I are setting up a web site. The problem is there is two of us, we co-author cozy mysteries, and seperately publish other books. Suggestions for a simple web name?
Could we have 2 web names that will direct to the one home page?

Hey Dave-I am trying to improve my web store rankings on Google. Someone suggested purchasing approximately 100 domain names which we would redirect to our web store, and if those domain names included important keywords, then it would improve our rankings. Would this truly be effective?

I was wondering the same thing... I have a website offering my wedding photography services which is a PR3, but the domain name is my own first and last name. It does still show up highly ranked in google placement with some keywords, however there is a lot of competition with one specific keyword search which I have found that the exact match domain name is available for, so I was thinking about buying this domain name and redirecting it to my already established website, but then I couldn't help but to wonder if since there would be multiple domain names pointing to one website with the same content if google would think of this as not original content, or if they would just know that it's one website with a couple domain names pointing to it. My hope isn't to increase page rank with the new domain since I can do this well enough without it, my hope is to tap into a more competitive keyword search, and I though by having this new domain name it would help to achieve this. However if this would be looked at as duplicate content, I suppose I could just use the new domain name on a blog or something and then link the blog back to my website on its homepage and blog posts.

does hyphening words in a URL help with search placement?

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