Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Your Company Doesn’t Need More Domain Names

By: Bookmarks about Branding

Bookmarks about Branding — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:45:21 +0000

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By: Downtown Toronto Condos Dude

Downtown Toronto Condos Dude — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:37:43 +0000

My domain right now is my name – andrewlafleur.com. For SEO purposes I think it would be better if I had something with a key word in the domain. But I already have so much time and effort invested in andrewlafleur.com. Is there some way I can change the domain name or add a domain name to my marketing strategy to take advantage of the best of both worlds (so to speak)???

By: Daniel Bates

Daniel Bates — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:32:39 +0000

If Mountain Dew didn’t buy DewMocracy.com, after advertising the slogan in numerous ads then a competitor or little Adsense punk probably would anyway, so I see it as brand preservation

By: Hawaii real estate guy

Hawaii real estate guy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:01:57 +0000

I would say keeping at least one aged domain name and building some relevant content to your main site is a good idea. If something were to happen to your main domain, such as a penalty from a search engine (god forbid), it would be smart to have another domain ready to go.

By: Justin Smith

Justin Smith — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:00:32 +0000

Hi Katerina,
Thanks for stopping by. I’m not sure what you mean about subdomains because the example you gave is not a subdomain.

It sounds like you are just talking about a 301 redirect from a novelty domain to another page of your main website. There is nothing necessarily wrong with doing that, but I would caution you to read reasons 3-5 on my post to see why I disagree with their use. And in regards to your search engine ranking, it is pretty much useless.

By: Katerina Gasset

Katerina Gasset — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:17:39 +0000

Justin,
Are you talking about just main domain names? I have done some extensive marketing research and using subdomains is very effective. For instance we have a page on our website that is info on short sales so I bought the name short-sales-florida.com and that takes them to my same website but my landing page is where they will want to be so that is where they land. This is a very effective marketing tool.

By: Justin Smith

Justin Smith — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:39:43 +0000

Hey Ashley,
Thanks for commenting. If they haven’t run into duplicate content problems already, they will in the near future. All that duplication is probably causing Google to just devalue many of their sites rendering them useless in the serps.

Thanks again for stopping by!

By: Ashley Drake Gephart

Ashley Drake Gephart — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:01:17 +0000

Justin – There is another team here in town who have at least a dozen domains. The biggest problem is that they post the same post to ALL of them. Some of the domains are for one town and the others another town and they cross post town information on all sites. I don’t see what the point is and I can’t see them coming up very high in Google with such duplicate content. I only have two sites, one a blog and one a standard website. It is all I can do to manage both of them let alone several.