Using multiple Domain names

[Eljaybe]

If I already have a web site I have optimized and submitted to search engines using one Domain name, what happens if I buy a new domain name (same site) and submit it to search engines? I'm afraid it sounds like spamming, and I obviously don't want to take that risk!
So, how do I buy multiple domain names (maybe 1 or 2 more) and use them to forward to the same web site that I've already submitted to search engines?
I want to buy 1 or 2 more domain names that contain our most important keyword(s).

Thanks for your advice!

[Shak]

are you "expecting" any type in traffic from these new good-keyword-type.com domains, if so then a redirect should do the trick.

however if the sole purpose is for SE traffic, then I am afraid some work creating unique content will be required and then used as a bait for the main site.

Shak

[Filipe]

Right. I'm always surprised at what people try to trick search engines, but this is probably the most common and the most understandable.

Your best bet is to stick with branding and getting links built up for a single domain name. If you have a second domain name, then it should be a totally different site, unless you have three domain names like:

widgets.com
widgets.org
widgets.net

In which case having multiple domain names serves a different purpose.

My advice: DONT try to trick search engiens. Just play the game by their rules, and you'll win.

If you're just trying to surpass your competition, then just do what the search engines want better than they do. What you should be asking, then, is what do search engines want?

[A_Web_Guy]

Buy them, redirect them, advertise them, but DO NOT submit them. I think I wrote an article on this sometime or another ... possibly on my site. In short, never cheat a search engine.

I have a couple hundred or more domains directed to each of my primary business sites, but I only use one for submitting to SEs (which I have not actually done in over a year, yet remain in the top of my SE keywords).

If you are launching a new site, you may consider using the hyphenated domain as the base domain while pointing type-in domains to the keyword-packed domain.

If you want a search engine to find them, you could have incoming links from relevant sites to the alternate URL, but that could even get touchy.

Best regards,

Mark

[Eljaybe]

Thank you everyone for the advice! I will make sure I don't submit any new domains we buy.

So I assume that means search engines will never index the new domain names, because I have not submitted them?

I wonder if it's worth buying them (multiple domain names) other than the purpose of preventing your competitors from snatching them up?

What do you think?

[Alternative Future]

Ok a question regarding the issue on different domains pointing to your main domain:

If someone were sitting on a pile of domains and to save being caught as cyber squatting pointed them towards (with a simple JavaScript redirect) another domain without the webmasters knowledge, how would this be treated?

-gs