Multipul domains

how bad is this for SEO?

[ezyid]

Hello there,
My website currently has one domain and is doing well in google. but it has a Dash "-"
so it looks like www.Widget-gallery.com
but i am about to buy www.widgetgallery.com
is this bad?

also the name of my business is called, "Widgets Big Gallery"
so is it alright to also buy www.widgetbiggallery.com?

and use a 301 redirect for each domain?

I do not want to look spammy, but i just want the best results for people who "misspell" my domain name!

Any ideas.
Thankyou.
Steve.

[diddlydazz]

sounds perfectly fine to me, in fact i think you would be mad not to try and get the non-hyphen version :o)

301 the domains correctly, only promote one URL (dont submit other variants to anywhere) and IMHO you are good to go ;o)

for the record we do this with every domain we are serious about.

(as well as getting the other TLDs)

hth

dazz

[ezyid]

Yeah but im buying expired domains.. some have already backlinks..
Would a meta redirect be better in this case?

Cheers,