I have 43 domains, but I don't have a clue....

Total newbie seeks help in planning stages

[jovato]

I have been put into the following situation and I thought that I would ask everyone what they thought the best course of action was.

I have a main site that I would like to promote. I also have 43 domain names that relate to this site. I would like to know what the best course of action is to take to have a high search engine ranking. If there are other benifits, I would like to know too.

I have a virtual dedicated server.

Are there scripts that I can tie the domains to that generate a page on the fly? Should I create a page for each doamin name, and then point those to the main site I want to promote? What about meta-tags? I am kind of lost here.

Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks.

[JamesR]

Networks with no real unique content used for ranking purposes are dangerous. Expect to get nailed in time.

It is hard to advise without knowing the nature of your business, focus, goals and so on.

I would pick out the most promising domains (3 or 4) and just do a good job making them valuable sites and ranking them.

[mnamesir]

You could set up A records on your TLD and set up a redirect script to point to a different destination.

For example, alias1.domain1.com, alias2.domain1.com, alias1.domain2.com, alias2.domain2.com

You could choose you sub-domain names carefully based on the search terms you are looking to match up with.

Use a "response.redirect" server-side VBscript to take the URL entered by the browser and point to a path on your site. You acn programmatically make the links on the subdomains point to the other subdomains, making it look to Google that you have different sites with different URLs... If you add content/script to make the pages look differently based on the URl entered, then you should have good luck.

To add subdomains, go into your DNS servers and add the aliases - you can point them at the same IP as you TLD (Top Level Domain).

I've had great luck with this for my shared (one IP address) hosting...

[ytswy]

jovato, if you haven't already read it, Brett's "Succesful Site in 12 Months with Google alone" post could be very useful:

[webmasterworld.com...]

It won't help much with any "tricks" you might want to try with multiple domain names - and maybe that's neccasery for your situation - but it covers all the basics for building and promoting the average site.

[Ryan8720]

Definitely put meta tags on the domains you intend to develope.

I would suggest at least the keyword and description tag. The author tag is also helpful.