Other domain name in page title

[aus_dave]

I'm not into anything dodgy on my site - no link farms, doorways etc. It's a simple B2B site that I am gradually building up with some articles.

My site is mydomain.com.au, but I have noticed in my server logs that some visitors find me via mydomain.com. I can't get mydomain.com at the moment (some squatter wants $10,000 for my surname ;)). A search for 'mydomain.com' only finds one page, a generic squatting company page on it. My page shows up 3rd on the 'contain the term' page.

I think I could create a small page using SEO techniques that basically says 'mydomain.com isn't our domain name - but you have found mydomain.com.au', outranking the squatter page. Would this be considered spam by Google? If I qualify the content stating mydomain.com is not our domain name, where's the harm?

Any comments on this - one negative comment would be enough for me not to try this I think. I have a funny feeling I will get a resounding 'don't do it' :).

[sem4u]

>I think I could create a small page using SEO techniques that basically says 'mydomain.com isn't our domain name - but you have found mydomain.com.au'...

Why don't you put this part on your homepage somewhere, possibly with a link to another page explaining further.

Just my 2 cents :)

[Woz]

As mydomain = surname, I would imagine that having a page about your surname would pull in some referrals. The trick would then to be to lead those referrals through to product pages.

Onya
Woz