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URL redirect and google penalties

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  • 10-01-2010 7:37pm
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    Diceicle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭


    Hello there,

    I would like to get some advice.
    For the sake of easiness I'll use a hypothetical situation.

    If there was a construction company called Thompson & Fallon, they've been using a website URL of thompsonfallon.com as its easier to remember and not as long as thompsonfallonconstruction.com , would it be practical / justifiable to buy the thompsonfallonconstruction.com and use a redirect to the original website (thompsonfallon.com)?
    What is the likelihood of a penalty being encurred from a search engine?
    The goal of the change to the URL being an improved pagerank on search engines.

    Thanks for reading.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    If you use a 301 redirect from extradomain > maindomain you shouldn't have any issues.

    blacknight.com has a number of domains pointing at it, but you only ever see the .com

    Adding an extra domain won't help you with search engines, but it *might* help you with type in traffic ..

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    Dawei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Dawei


    Blacknight wrote: »
    If you use a 301 redirect from extradomain > maindomain you shouldn't have any issues.

    blacknight.com has a number of domains pointing at it, but you only ever see the .com

    Adding an extra domain won't help you with search engines, but it *might* help you with type in traffic ..

    Totally agreed. conversion is as import as traffic


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