Comments on: How to lose top rankings by redirecting a new domain name to your site

By: Tom Shivers

Tom Shivers — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:59:31 +0000

@Jay glad I could help. Toward the end of this post there are a few links to some very helpful technical know how. Also, if your site is less than 100 URLs, you probably don’t need Apache rewrite.
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By: Jay_sportoboots

Jay_sportoboots — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:01:15 +0000

Thanks for the advice @TomShivers. I wish I had more technical knowledge, talking Apache rewrites is a bit over my head unfortunately! (I understand some basic stuff). Thanks for the post anyways!

By: Tom Shivers

Tom Shivers — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:32:03 +0000

@Gilbert, you won’t have a problem if you simply change hosts and keep the same domain name, but if you ever change domain names, you do need to 301 redirect all the important pages of your old domain to the new domain. One of the easier ways to do lots of 301 redirects is with apache rewrite.
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By: Gilbert@namebadges

Gilbert@namebadges — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:36:03 +0000

@TomShivers, as far as i know 301′s DO redirect link juice and you get credit, but not as much as if hte link went directly to the correct site. If for example you change hosts or domains, you need to really get the ‘old’ site to be 301′ed to the new one. however, it’s not foolproof.
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By: Tom Shivers

Tom Shivers — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:59:45 +0000

@Amit, I agree you have a complicated problem there. But, as far as 301 redirecting a domain name to another, Google should honor the links and credit the final domain name with the links.

By: Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:17:55 +0000

Ok…my problem is a little complex. My site is blocked by akismet for blog commenting and my comments always go into spam. I am thinking of buying a new domain and 301 redirecting it to my main domain and use this url for website field in blog comments. What do you think? How google will respond to this. Building links for a domain redirected to another domain? Is it ok or it looks fishy in the eyes of google. I have no other way to comment. And I have appealed to akismet but don’t know when they’ll unblock my site.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:08:49 +0000

Very nice and informative post thanks for shearing

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Think Again Before Buying Keyword Domain Names - Domain Trust — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:12:11 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:37:45 +0000

@Katie, creating a separate website, or mini-site, is a fine way to segment and communicate more directly with a subset of your target audience. But, I wouldn’t host those mini-site’s on the same IP address and I wouldn’t expect much from building a “link wheel” with your mini-sites.

If you are going for a competitive keyword phrase with your mini-site, having the keyword phrase in your domain name will only get you so far in the rankings.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:23:10 +0000

Question for the author – will it hurt my current website if I purchase another URL, add semi-new content to it, and link to my current site?

For example, let’s say an insurance agent has a page on his site dedicated to homeowners insurance. He buys homeownersinsurance.com, adds relevant content, and links to his current website’s homeowner’s insurance page. The content would be similar, but not an exact replica.

By: to domain name

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By: Matt Haff

Matt Haff — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:19:56 +0000

Great post Tom. I had gone through this with my website, when I changed my business from matthaff.com to mindseyewebdesign.net I knew of the troubles that I would face if I didn’t do it correctly. The steps that I took were a little harder but I think they definitely paid off.

I bought the new domain name, launched a new website with it, and redirected matthaff.com to mindseyewebdesign.net for about 3-6 months. I also did a permanent redirect on all of the old pages to the new location. After I saw that Google had indexed it and everything was working fine, I launched a new portfolio site at http://www.matthaff.com and took down the redirect.

Thanks to the steps I took, now both websites are very highly ranked under my target keywords “atlanta web design” and “atlanta website design”.