multiple domains pointing to same content

is this a duplicate content issue?

[abkaiser]

I've registered my domain name, along with a couple misspellings and some other common uses of my business.

They all point to the same website.

Is this going to flag a duplicate content warning? Or any other issues I should be aware of while doing this?

Thanks,

Andy

[stinkfoot]

Andy. i am pretty sure that if you submit multiple domain names google will think that there are many sites with the same info on it.

I found that after I registered a trademark site and many many IRL with similar names .org .co.uk .com .net ect Yahoo of all places had all of these domains in its search. I had not submitted them but .. perhaps .. being very paranoid as I am .. my competitors did it for me thinking how much of a favour it would be to have dup content problems.

I therefor went around each of the other domains and put a blank from page on the with only a small amount of link text to the real site.

Since this time I have ranked number 1 on all search engines for my brand name.

If anyone one knows different though I would like to hear .. after all seems a bit of a waist having 20 domains and only 20 single links on them

[abkaiser]

...Just bumping this topic... Anyone have any other thoughts? I originally thought this would be a pretty easy-to-answer question, but it may actually be more complex than I thought.

[vdoyl]

I think it will be considered dupe content.

It is better to use some 301 redirects of all your pointed domain names to your main domain.

Or you can try to make them doorway pages. Put some text with a link to your main domain.

Just my opinion

[g1smd]

Point all the domains to the one server.

Set up a series of redirects on that server so that all requests for anything that is not on www.domain.you.want.com are redirected to www.domain.you.want.com for all pages of the site. Make sure you cater for all www and non-www requests for all related domains.

[arthurdaley]

I have been thinking about doing something similar. I have quite a lot of domains sitting around doing not very much. I was thinking of making them all redirect to splash pages on one main site e.g.

www.bluewidgets.com would redirect to Maindomain.com/blue-widgets.html

www.redwidgets.com would redirect to Maindomain.com/red-widgets.html

www.widgetworld.com would redirect to Maindomain.com/widget-world.html

These splash pages would then have adverts on relating to "blue widgets" or whatever was relevant to the particular domain being redirected. Rather like how a lot of domains just forward you onto a page on the seeq website or the sedo website.

My question is: is the main site Maindomain.com likely to get penalised?

[g1smd]

Sounds a bit like a doorway scheme of some sort.

I don't like it.