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Off-page promotion

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Slade

7:18 pm on Dec 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I remember some people talking about building pages hosted somewhere other than the site you're promoting. These are for those that have crap for brains and won't let you actually improve the site they want you to SEO.

My question is just, where do you put them? Do you register a different .com just to promote them, or put up a subdomain on an existing site?

pageoneresults

7:32 pm on Dec 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Hello Slade. There may not be many replies to this as its a practice that few will talk about. See this thread and digitalghosts reply...

Shadow Domains [webmasterworld.com]

bryanmex

5:06 am on Dec 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



pageoneresults

Is this idea of shadowing pushing the limit of what search engines will allow or is it just a really good technique that few want to share with others?

Bottom line will it have repercussions if a person decides to take this approach. I try to do everything on the up and up and don't want to burn a client.

pageoneresults

5:17 am on Dec 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Hello bryanmex, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

It is pushing the limit. Its also a technique that if done properly has its benefits. The problem is, at what point do you decide to use the strategy. I personally would not do it, and that is my own personal opinion. If a client came to me and asked me to set up a shadow domain, I'd have to pass. I've never done one, and never had to. I've turned away a few projects where the clients did not want to incorporate my suggested changes. That's fine, there are many others who will deal with it, I won't.

I'm sure someone will come along and reply to this thread and give you the answer you are looking for. It might be a little while because I think there are very few known members who are going to tell you that it is a viable solution in a public setting. In the general sense of this discussion, you're asking for trouble if you really don't know what you are doing.

bryanmex

7:13 pm on Dec 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



It is not something that I would want to do either. I have had good enough success using traditional techniques and hard work. I have found that always to be the best way for the long haul.

I stay away from these quick fix all solutions. they work for a short time and then they usually get banned and then the client is out the door and rather upset.

thanks for your response