Using several domains on one site to increase SE ranks

Hi,

Is it wrong (i.e. will I get penalised) if I order several domains and point them to relevant parts of my website?

I sell vaccuum bags and thought it might help my search engine ranking if I ordered several domains along the lines of [manufacturer_name]-vacuum-bags.com and point them to the relevant manufacturer's category on my website.

I know that google doesn't take too kindly to doorway pages and wondered if this method would be seen as the same thing?

Thanks for any input!

Hi, Webguy76,

Although domain names are as cheap as chips to buy (especially .co.uk ones) you would still face the problem of getting the new sites listed in search engines so that back-links could be found relevant to your vacuum bag site.

I noticed on a 'view source' of your url that you don't have a DOCTYPE.. at the top of your html.

It is important to identify the type of document your pages are as this could prevent them being rendered properly in some browsers or being crawled and indexed properly.

Hope this helps

Using different domains to feed traffic back to one central domain can work if it's done right.

Firstly, make sure that each domain has it's own original content. Layout doesn't matter, but what the pages say sure does.

Secondly, don't just have huge amounts of site-wide links plastered on the other domains. A good way that you can get the traffic without worrying about the serch engines is having a "Buy Now" form on the feeder sites that has calls a form on your main site. This will send the traffic, but not the bots.

Of course, there's always other ways like Javscript links that can help as well. The main thing to remember is to keep every domain different. Do that and you should have a good system.

So it would be a bad idea just to forward the domain to the relevant part of the existing site?

That depends on how you do it. If you can do a 301 redirect it won't hurt you at all. The problem then is that the other domains that you've bought will never have any links or PR associateed with them, so they'll really never rank for themselves, and I personally think that defeats the idea of having them in the first place.

I agree, might be worth channeling you efforts into main site SEO optimization

if you are hosting all the sites on the same domain you are just creating a headache... I agree with Catacaustic just SEO the main

Thanks so much for all your input! I'm rethinking how I might go about this whole idea now!