Alias for better SEO placement -question

Hello yall...

The other day i was talking to a friend who said I should take me domain and split it in 2 words instead of the one that would not be reconized.

It made sense to me, so i registered another domain that had a - in it to seperate the 2 words.

After doing so, I asked my server provider whats the best way to go about this.

My questions were..

Should I move an index into the new domain folder?

Here was his reply.

"The best way to do this is to delete the new girlfriends-lingerie.com domain
from your domains list, then under the Domains icon, edit the existing
girlfriendslingerie.com domain and click on the button to add a Domain Alias.
Fill in girlfriends-lingerie.com and leave the checkboxes in the default
states. After about 24 hours, girlfriends-lingerie.com will properly resolve
to girlfriendslingerie.com, without a redirect and without the need to copy
website content. "

That was what he sent me...So i did what he said, now the new name with the - now works and goes to my site.

My problem here is, and this is why im wring to you all here. How would i submit this new domain name to the search engines when there isnt an actual, lets say "Index" to point it to. Sure the allais goes to my default store, but shouldnt there be somethign for the engines to see when pointing them to the new allias.

The main reason i did this is to get more exposure in the engines to my main keyword, thus seperating the url to a better seen keyword with the -.

How would you all see this thru? Did I do it right based o nwhat my website provider stated?

Thanks all... I will look forword to any replies you may have.

There's no benefit of having more than one domain name pointing to your site, infact sometimes it can be less than benficial. Search engines look at both domains and that they are copies of each other and may put a black mark next to your domain for duplicate content.

The best idea would be redirect all traffic from your new domain to your old one, if you really want to use it.

As far as getting a new domain with a - between keywords, pretty much a waste of time, search engines are good at looking for keywords in domains, pages, titles etc. Infact there's been talk of search engines penalizing against having - between keywords as that's what a lot of spammers use. E.g. diet-xenical-lose-wieght-now.com etc.

My advice would be not to worry about the new domain and concentrate on getting backlinks for the original domain.

I agree that getting the "-" domain was a waste of a domain name. But if you 300 redirect it the the old site, it may be slightly beneficial. Having one or two domains pointing to the same site won't hurt, but don't go over that limit. Google will see that one simply points to the other, and will choose one to ignore. That _might_ not be the new one- I've had the new domain fair well in google and the established domain ignored by google. In any case, there was no reduction in traffic, just to which domain name it was going to.

The other engines might not be so smart, and may simply give you two listings. I don't know for certain, I haven't really researched the subject, but I doubt that it will hurt you.