phpmaven - 8:35 pm on Nov 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thank you all for your comments.

I have a follow up question for those of you who are using shadow domains and then redirecting to another domain. The prevailing view seems to be that this practice cannot cause any problems on the domain being redirected to since if that were true you could hose your competitors domain by redirecting pages to his domain.

Assuming that you set this up properly so that there is no connection between your shadow domain and primary one, is there still a risk to your primary domain? Has anyone had their primary domain hosed using this method?

One of the reasons I ask is that I had a SEO company call me recently to try and sell me on their service. Basically what they do is set up pages on their server that are doorway pages that rank for your chosen keywords and then the end user has to actually click on a link to go to your site. When I asked him why they don't do a redirect so that you wouldn't lose the people that didn't want to click through to their client's site, he suggested that they would risk their client's sites getting banned.

Even GG has suggested on more than one occasion that there is nothing you can do that could affect somebody else’s site in the serps. What is your experience with this?