Question about redirect for google

[member22]

I need to do a redirect my website to another domain name

i want to redirect www.mywebsite.com to www.myotherwebsite.com
In other words once you type www.mywebsite.com have the address change to www.myotherwebsite.com

I was wondering what is going to happen as far as SEO, is google going to index www.myotherwebsite.com or no ? I would like google not to index www.myotherwebsite.com

What I want is to keep www.mywebsite.com for SEO purposes as the main address for the website but because it is over 35 characters and see that I want to advertise on google I need to find another web address because www.mywebsite.com is too long that is why I want to do a redirect.

Thank you,

[tedster]

I'm not sure if this is an Adwords question or an organic search question. Can you clarify?

[Quadrille]

Assuming it's a 'search engine' question, Google will index the page you redirect TO.

The site you redirect FROM will fall out of the index, over time.

So always think very, very carefully about changing domain - it can often leave you much worse off than you are now.

Why do you feel you NEED to redirect; there may be another solution to the problem.

[member22]

I bought a new domain name because my current domain name is too long for adwords. However I am not ging to change my current domain name because it is going to help me rank naturally. However I am just going to redirect the new domain name I bought to my current domain name to be able to advertise on adwords until I rank naturally.

So form what you say I am fine. Google is going to index my current domain and not index the domain name I am using to redirect, is that it ?

Thank you,

[Shaddows]

To clarify:

You had
example1.com
example1.com is too long for adwords.

You bought
example2.com
You are going to do an adwords campaign for example2.com

Any traffic requesting example2.com should be 301'd to example1.com

All except Google, which somehow shoud avoid the redirect and spider example2.com

Is that right?

[member22]

You understood exactly what I want to do but i don't understand what you mean by :

All except Google, which somehow shoud avoid the redirect and spider example2.com

Thank you,

[Shaddows]

I was wondering what is going to happen as far as SEO, is google going to index www.myotherwebsite.com or no ? I would like google not to index www.myotherwebsite.com

In exemplified format:
Will google index example1.com.

I would like Google not to index example1.com (and by implication you DO want to index example2.com)

So, you want ADWORDS to list example2.com
People CLICKING on adwords to redirect to example1.com
GOOGLE to stay on example2.com (and not redirect to example1.com)

I see two things wrong with this, each making it a fatally flawed proposition

1) You are redirecting an adword ad to a different domain. Very doodgy
2) You are the very definition of cloaking- making Google's exeprience different from users' experience. Very bad.

[edited by: Shaddows at 10:20 am (utc) on Jan. 29, 2009]

[Quadrille]

The problem is simply that the site you register with Adwords (short.example.com) will instantly redirect to one that Adwords has rejected (content.example.com).

That will be (I'm 99% certain) in breech of the TOS - you are saying to Google "short.example.com is my site", but it isn't.

[member22]

what is TOS ?

[Shaddows]

Terms of Service, also known as T&Cs (terms and conditions).

Read through all the bumf on the adwords site or ask in google groups, or in the adwords forum for AWA to answer.

[Quadrille]

Terms of Service

Go to Adwords and look for "Advertising Policies".