help with increasing rank

question about multiple domains

[jcoffey]

We have a very small site that is not even showing up in the results for its keyword

This site resides under our subdomain - ie: 123.123.edu/directory/directory/index.asp

we also purchased a domain name that points directly to this directory -

which one should I promote - does it make a difference?

Any help would be appreciated.

[jk3210]

I'd recommend promoting the domain name rather than the other thing.

[treeline]

Domain names should be a lot easier to remember for visitors. Looks more promising in the search engine result pages too.

[DerekH]

Indeed yes, though just recently two of my sites that I run like that fell out of the index and what pages were left became URL only.

Google assured me the sites were not penalised, and the two forwarding domain names were, I could see, being spidered daily. It's just that Google didn't make the jump into the site itself.

As an experiment, I left one forwarder as it was (and the site it points to still has only two pages in the index, and is getting visited once a month).

For the other site, I purchased hosting to sit under the domain name. The site is visited daily, pages got added at the rate of 40 a day, and the site is 99.9% indexed and most pages are visited daily.

Purely on a PR footing, the home page hasn't changed.

This is curious!
DerekH