Multiple URLs

What does that mean for my ranking?

[dewaard]

Hi,

This is my first post to this board, since i'm quite new to the world of SEO. I must say that this board has been quite informative so far, so i'll fire one of my remaining questions at you: when I have 2 or 3 domains containing keywords which I would like to be found with all forwarding to my main domain, will this improve my ranking?

I've read that a good URL improves your ranking (like Tomshardware.com instead of Tom.com), but what when I have both Tom.com and hardware.com?

[storevalley]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld dewaard :)

when I have 2 or 3 domains containing keywords which I would like to be found with all forwarding to my main domain, will this improve my ranking?

Probably not. Building one decent site is a far better idea. Read through this post ... it'll point you in the right direction ...

Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com]

I've read that a good URL improves your ranking

This isn't nearly as important as good, relevant content ;)

[dewaard]

We are always working very hard on our content, which is quite good (there's always room for improvement, though). However, we have to improve our XHTML (make the site tableless) and get rid of our DHTML menu (which is quite good, but stores the links in a seperate JavaScript file which Google will never read).

I also discovered that there was a mirror of our website online (and indexed!), which i removed instantly. Altavista.com didn't index our own site (just the mirror) and Google ranks us extremely low (i couldn't find us on our major keywords). This was a domain in pointing to the same files and not a redirect. I currently use a permenant redirect instead.