I'm wondering if anyone can help out with an educated opinion about my problem, basically I have purchased 3 domains which contain keywords of a clients website, to which I did all the SEO work in the homepage, and therefore matching the URL's to the keywords used throughout the page.
the URL's r:
<Snip - URLs/Domains removed per Charter and WebmasterWorld TOS>
all of the above are parked at my <Snip - Please don't post your hosting here> server, to which I have changed the a name record to a friends unix server, where he has changed the status so the head displays a 301 'permenantly moved' and in turn directed them to the parent url <Snip - URL Removed> all this so as to avoid a 302 plus the clients website is on a different server to the three above registered keyword domains. I have checked the reported headers and all are 301 permenantly moved.
I have submitted them all to google url submit, I am using google analytics, and google sitemap, and have inserted all the url's however google is still not showing any indexing of the above URL's although analytics is receiving data on <Snip> all the others are still waiting for data? not sure if there is a problem here too, all the code is in right and confirmed. In addition all URL's and sitemaps and Google verify working in them.
I wondering is this something to do with the 301?
also when looking at the URL's in google analytics, clicking on site overlay, it cannot find or display site when using either of the keyword domains above, is this also telling me there is a problem?
Can anyone shed any light on my hours and hours of trying to get these buggers to work?
Also one other thing, sometimes when i try and add the domains to Google it doesn't make it to the thankyou page, and just presents a blank white page, can anyone explain this also?
Thanks in advance
Kind Regards
-=Kev=-
[edited by: Webwork at 11:15 pm (utc) on Sep. 14, 2006]
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if you are looking for type in traffic or are running a marketing campaign using a different domain name to help measure the response you are going about it pretty much the right way.
i'm pretty sure that is not what you are trying to do, perhaps you could explain clearly what you are trying to achieve.
When you use a "301", you are telling clients (and Google, other search engine spiders, etc.) that the page has moved permanently. It's elsewhere. The real site is over there.
Google is doing just what you've told it to do. It's indexing the main site that you've redirected-to.
If you want pages indexed for each site, you are going to have to have unique content for each site. If you just duplicate it, Google will eventually figure out that you are trying to game them, and then the rankings of ALL of the sites are in jeopardy.
It sounds like you are just trying to play some tricks to get more exposure in the SERPs. Google has gone to a lot of effort to prevent people from doing just what you are trying to do, and will continue to put a great deal more effort into it.
What you are attempting might have worked a couple of years ago.
