.gb.com domain
  • party_peteparty_pete
     
    February 2010
    I've been sitting on a keyword domain for a while now but am a little concerned about it's acceptance within search results as it's xxxx.gb.com

    On searching the www opinion seems to be split as to whether it'd be a problem using a .gb.com domain name.

    Anyone have any thoughts?
     
  • DarrenDarren
     
    February 2010
    Hi Pete

    I can see the advantages but i dont think they are any greater than .co.uk IMHO but the big question is how will SE's look at this domain. Will they or will they not class it as a UK domain / site

    I am no SE expert but im sure someone here will have a better idea

    Darren
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    February 2010
    Its like all the other useless domain names IMO. Save your money and time and concentrate on your .co.uk
     
  • pinbrookpinbrook
     
    February 2010
    you could use it as a 301 redirect
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    February 2010
    Pointing multiple domain names at a site is black hat and not liked by google
     
  • pinbrookpinbrook
     
    February 2010
    so if i have a site webhosting.co.uk - but also have webhosting.com, webhosting.net I cant do 301s
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    February 2010
    Ruralweb said:
    Pointing multiple domain names at a site is black hat and not liked by google

    I have heard a few stories, both of mixed outcome on doing this - I tried it before on a couple of throwaway sites which basically ran as an affiliate site to the main site, it worked well, but I shut 'em down cos playing around with Actinic's CSV's got boring (Interspire's are much cleaner and nicer to look at, so I might have a play around with it once I get a bit more time)...if this technique is 'black hat', I'm away to buy a hundred domains and forward them all to my competitors lol:thumbsup:
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    February 2010
    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    February 2010

    forward them
    Forwarding is different to 301 and will not result in any problems
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    February 2010
    OK. So if I use my domain registrar to 'Forward' the domain (at DNS level?), that is OK, but it's naughty to create a hosting account for a domain and place the 301 in htaccess at the sites root?

    It's surprising how well 'black hat' works, there's one bunch of mugs that do it every year at the height of the season for the most popular terms...with a new site every few months and the old one disappearing (presumably blacklisted). There's a fine line between where SEO is a skill..unfortunately these bastards have no morals. Oh well.
     
  • pinbrookpinbrook
     
    February 2010
    Ruralweb said:
    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
    thats talking about duolicate content, surely thats not the same as using 301 redirect a keyword.com to mysite.co.uk
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    February 2010
    It is because when you use a 301 to multiple unique urls you are I'm effect creating multiple sites ie duplicate content. This then swamps the search results which is why black batters use it.

    If you just want to point the domain name then you should use a forward.
     
  • pinbrookpinbrook
     
    February 2010
    ok, i'm clearly missing something here, i agree that using keyword.com should be regarded as blackhat. but i still dont see the difference.

    when i do a 301 i add a domain to a server, have a blank index file and have an htaccess sending all traffic to another website, To date my "hiiden" domain has not been indexed.

    I have to admit i dont encourage peeps to buy keyword domains for this purpose but i do remember 3 odd years ago doing it and seeing the site jump up from position 10-12 to position 3 where it still is, however i experimented recently using subdomains with absolutely no effect.

    For the record - how do you define a forward?
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    February 2010
    Forwarding is simply using the facility provided by most domain hosts to allow you to use several domains to link to your site but only one actually has it's dns pointing to the site. This allows you to for example have a complex domain name for the site but use a simpler domain in marketing materials.
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    February 2010
    Forwarding updates the DNS record for a domain, in this instance, to point a domain to the location of another hosted domain.

    Redirect....well, the hosted domain exists, but it redirected to another hosted domain.

    "SIMPLES" :eek:
     
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