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Hosting for keyword domains.

Hosting for keyword domains.

         

thunderpaste

3:40 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hi, I am setting up some domains using my popular keyword phrases. They will be used as integral parts of my main website. Should I worry about hosting them on geographicly different hosts, as some people recomend for "informational" sites? Will the domains recieve higher ranking scores if they are hosted in different parts of the country?

Lisa

3:56 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I have seen no evidence that ranking is effected by where and how far you host from another site.

Marcia

4:01 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Welcome to WebmasterWorld, thunderpaste.

>They will be used as integral parts of my main website.

Can you clarify how the keyword domains will be integral parts of your main web site? Will they be independent sites, or will they point to the main site or its directories>

If they'll be separate, will they be interlinked with each other?

thunderpaste

5:59 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hello, Sorry for the slow reply. I thought I would get an email with the reply. I plan to use the domains as small informational sites within my main site. For example, the index and pages directly related to shopping for "widgets" will be hosted on my main, branded domain. Within this domain I want to build a comprehensive area with tons of related widget info, help, questions... This info will be hosted on keywordurl.com and some pages will be SEO optimized to leverage the ranking power of the URL. It is my thinking that since they will be so closely related and interlinked that geography will play a monor role. Now I see the email reply checkbox. Cool!

toolman

7:25 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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>>>SEO optimized to leverage the ranking power of the URL

You're talking about smidgens here. I think INK prolly gives the most weight to urls.

The only real reason to have keyword laden urls is to insure a proper title at Yahoo.

As far as geographics...it certainly wont hurt to spread things out using different hosts. Just make sure you have different domain records to make it all look unrelated. This is more to thwart the worlwide spam police consortium than to gain any advantage in ranking.

thunderpaste

8:49 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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But it is not my intention to make it look unrelated. I just want to have some information pages closely integrated into the site that use certain URLs. Sort of like small theme sites within my main site. Would this be considered a bad thing because of the interlinking? I thought Google liked to see webs that are very intertwined?

Marcia

9:07 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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>small theme sites within my main site.

That is a different issue, it concerns site structure and navigation. But you're getting into a different realm when you're using several domain names pointing to the same site.

>Would this be considered a bad thing because of the interlinking? I thought Google liked to see webs that are very intertwined?

thunderpaste, now you're getting into something that you'll have to dig in and read posts back through the Google forum for. It's turning into a Google issue.

When you say "very intertwined" you have to watch for closed linking circles and cross-linking issues, which is a touchy issue with Google. And using several domain names complicates the situation a little bit.

I assume if you're talking about small theme sites within your main site, you'll be having the keyword-laden domain names pointing to sections of that same main site without having content of their own.

Question: Do you expect to get rankings for those content pages under the URL of the main site, or the keyworded domain names, or both?

thunderpaste

10:06 pm on Aug 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Maybe sub-domains would be easier to use for this type of thing, or nothing. But is there a good way to put these domains I have now to work?