Parking Domains effect

Parking multiple domains harm?

[silverbytes]

Hi Is there something wrong with parking multiple domains in your hosted main domain?

IE www.yourdomain.com in use, hosted

parked domains: your-domain.com
yourdomain-something.com
and so on

I don't want to leave domains free to be taken by competitors specially those similar to mine!

Any help?

[fischermx]

Hi Is there something wrong with parking multiple domains in your hosted main domain?

I guess you mean parking domains in the same host/server as your main domain?

Well, what I do is this, if I own widgets.com and mywidgets.com, coolwidgets.com, etc. I have all my content in widgets.com, then I setup mywidgets.com and coolwidgets.com to redirect all their type-in traffic to my main domain widgets.com.
I don't find nothing wrong with this.

[pmkpmk]

Yes, use permanent redirects to redirect them all to ONE domain, otherweise your risk duplicate content penalties.

[silverbytes]

I don't mean hosting 3 sites and putting 301. I mean "Parking" is there an option in my cpanel to park a domain which is entering your domain alternative to make every user typing it , to land on your actual main domain (and the one that has the parked domains)....

Anything bad with that?

[fischermx]

Check what that "parking" option is really doing.
Very likely is doing a 301 anyway.

[silverbytes]

Any others heard about "Parking"?

[markoh]

Ok..

If I have 'mysearch123.com' which happens to be a search site... Will google penalize you if you have another domain redirect to a specific search term? For example.. If I own IloveRobotStuff.com but I dont want to develope a robot page... Is it good practice to redirect IloveRobotStuff to mysearch123.com/search=Robot+Junk? And furthermore, does anyone know if this is ok if the result page displays google ads? I know the google adsense for search prohibits linking to key terms (they all must be typed in) but does this apply if you have your own directory/search site and the results are not from google (except for the adwords)?

[silverbytes]

We are getting close to the point. Many times you want to capture users what enters in adress bar a url wheter exists or not IE www.cityname.com because they know something very close related must be to what they are searching for.

You can get some visitors registering your cityname.com domain and parking that so they be redirected to you actual domain.com.

In some cases you want to be covered in order to avoid competitors take domains that sounds like yours so if you register city-name.com and namecity.com you may park those to be redirected to youdomain.com

In the other hand think in cityname.com.something (for other countries domain) you may register those and get those visitors.

Will SE see that practice like spam attempt? is that risky?

[fischermx]

SilverBytes :

I have a domain which is receive redirects from another 16 domains.
That domain is well ranked in GYM (Google, Yahoo and MSN). It has been a year with this setup.
Beside purely on this experience, I don't think there's any penality on it.

[caveman]

To my knowledge there is no ill effect as long as it's a properly executed 301. Certainly, we've done it and not seen any issues. This is far from spam or sneaky.

What might be a small issue is if you buy a domain these days with existing backlinks, say from ODP, and try to take advantage of that for SEO reasons. But even there, I believe that more adept SE's simply discount any relationship between the two. Happy to hear someone correct me though.

[willbl]

Ok... a related question:

I have a site www.mysite.co.uk. i have registered all variations such as .com .org .net. at the moment the other domains forward to my .co.uk site. i am thinking of changing it so that my .com shows an identical site to the .co.uk site but just with all prices in USD instead of £. Do i risk being penalized for dupe content?

[silverbytes]

I said yes it's risky but it would be nice to hear experiences about it.