Domain Forwarding BAD?

[alphacooler]

Hey all, this is my first post. I searched the site and found a lot of similar questions to my own, but I really would like to be certain they apply to my situation.

I have a site www.siteA.com and in that hosting account I also have www.siteA.com/folder. I bought another domain (through godaddy.com) name www.siteB.com and am pointing it to ww.siteA.com/folder/index.php. I have the "hide" feature turned on so people don't see where the site is really located in the address bar, but now that I am getting ready to submit to google I am wondering if this will affect my Page Rank at all. Should I get another hosting account, or will this work fine?

I have done all the meta keywords and have some good links coming to my site, but I just don't want the fact that this domain is forwarded to hurt me. Thanks so much guys. I truly appreciate this...as you can tell I am quite lost.

Warm Regards,

Kris

[jdMorgan]

Kris,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

If you intend to make money with or put any kind of important resource on that site, then forget the domain forwarding stuff. You can get some pretty outstanding hosting (including a unique IP address) for $7.95 a month when paid on an annual contract. If a site won't make more than $7.95 a month, or isn't worth paying that much to host it, it's probably not worth your time.

The 'pointing' is done with either a redirect or with a frames trick. If done with a redirect, then your hosted site's (SiteA) URL will appear in the address bar of your browser when you visit the forwarded site (SiteB). If done with frames, you won't see that URL change. But both methods are an opportunity to confuse search engines unnecessarily, and I recommend against this practice... We're talking the cost of a discounted music CD per month here...

Jim

[Automan Empire]

What about non-hidden forwarding from "placeholder" urls then?

By this I mean, say you have ecommerce site example.com and bought example.net, example.biz etc.

Will setting those to (non-hidden)forward to the dot-com help, hurt, or be ignored as far as search engines are concerned?

When I bought the sites, I thought of using the other sites to do split advertising campaigns. Thanks to webmaster world, I see there are far better ways to accomplish this goal using the main .com url. Should I leave them set to forward to my .com site, or let them wither?