Multiple Domain names - Pointers

[twindad1]

Hi, Thanks to everyone in this awesome forum for such solid information.

I have a client who has 5 different sites and about 50 domain names all pointing to the 5 sites. Now what is the best way to go about submitting all of these sites?

Is there a way to obtain rankings on all 50 of these domains?

Thanks.

[tedster]

Welcome to the forums, twindad. I have several clients who have similar situations. The issue is that the domains need individual content, and several pages of it (we aim for 12 as a minimum.) Then, yes, each domain can rank well.

More and more, exactly mirrored domains are getting penalized in ranking, so the way to make good, sustained use of this asset is to develop each domain name's content and then interlink them like crazy. I assume the 5 main sites have lots of information. The "satellite" domains can each focus on one theme and point "in" toward a principal domain.

Another tactic I'm working with one client is that each main menu category goes to a different domain name, even though the graphics and branding don't show this -- a visitor only sees what's happening if they watch the location window closely.

[Brett_Tabke]

What Tedster said. Be very careful submitting mirror pages. Redirected domains are killers for promotion. Almost all the se's will take a bite out of the main domain on that many similar names (called domain name spamming).

[twindad1]

Thanks Tedster & Brett.

Now you say redirected domains can get penalized. Now is this if they are all say pointing to www.abc.com (which is main domain).

So now when you say "The "satellite" domains can each focus on one theme and point "in" toward a principal domain".

Do you mean that instead of just pointing to abc.com, one would point to abc.com/content1 - Which would then have different content based on the domain name that is pointing to main domain?

What do you mean by interlinking them like crazy.

How many different sets of rankings can you get with this method? Will this method hurt the main domains rankings?

Thanks again for the assistance, you guys rule!

[Brett_Tabke]

Pointing down within the site is one way to do it. (I wouldn't).
If you got the power and tech to do pointer domains, there isn't a real reason you can't put actual content on that url too.

Interlinking, pages cross promoting each other. domain.com/pagea.html points to domain.com/pageb.html, which points to c, and d, and back to a. Get all kinds of interlinking going on. One of the way Google is ranking pages is by how many pages within a site point at it. It is a cheap check by Google to see which pages you consider important on your own site. Theory is that ever site will have a site menu that to all the important pages. Those site menus will ramp up the link counts within a site. Inner link stuff to death to over ride a bit of that link counting. It stops googel from actually counting out some pages that otherwise were quality.