Dave, I've got to take issue with you for an incomplete answer while agreeing with you at the same time for a correct answer. Given that your site has good content, multiple domains can help you. What I've found works really well though is to have two sites selling the same merchandise with different domains and designs... Essentially, they are multiple competing sites, all optimized nicely to take up spots near the top of the search listings. In this way, multiple domains mean an incredible amount of extra business for my company. One of my sites occupies all of the top 8-10 spots for the search terms/phrases we care about most.
So the key is not just to point multiple domains to one site, but to replicate your site and compete with yourself. If you do a good job at it on all of your sites, you'll definitely see the benefit. Don't make life harder for yourself though; make sure that the bulk of your administration can be handled in one place... Also, some of my sites only sell a specific subset of our products. --Ferg -----Original Message----- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: re: Search engine question No. Content is king - let me rephrase that CONTENT IS KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One reason cssp style sites are better for ranking is the clean design and easy access to the pages content, which brings us back to, Content Is King. The page title has more relevance than more urls, the only thing more url's will give you is more page links to the site but you would need several hundred thousands of them to make a difference, plus they may nail you for spamming the bots in which case, well lets just say you don't wanna do that! What's the url wilbergini? I haven't read this yet but i threw it up 4 ya, http://www.jamwerx.com/HowGoogleWorks.swf ---------------------------------------- From: Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:38 PM To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Search engine question Ok, don't pummel me for askin this one. I just know some of you will have the answer. On my volleyball apparel site, the client is asking about added domain names to help attract more people. If I were to use something volleyball-shorts.com as a domain name, would that add relevance to the site with Google? Thanks much, Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:200971 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
