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#1   04-29-2008, 01:14 PM
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Additional urls pointing to homepage?


Guys,

I picked up one additional domain name and wanted to redirect it to my homepage. Any tips on what I should do with the actual redirect site?

Should I have words or phrases or anything so that it shows up on search engines before redirecting folks?

Thoughts?
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Re: Additional urls pointing to homepage?


Normally I just point it straight to the forum or root, but I tried adding some text in vBulletin Styles Templates Hacks Modifications Skins vBulletin SEO
I haven't noticed anything from it, altho I don't think I have any analytics on it :p

I would just point it to the forum, or you can do something like we did here.
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Just a splash page with text and links to the actual site.
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#3   04-29-2008, 04:53 PM
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Re: Additional urls pointing to homepage?


I think that I'll actually do a quick page with a link on it. Nothing too fancy at first, just through my GoDaddy account 'free' page hosting thing.

How do you "point it straight to the forum or root"?

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Re: Additional urls pointing to homepage?


Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>vBulletin Styles Templates Hacks Modifications Skins vBulletin SEO</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com"></HEAD>
<BODY>
<h1>vBulletin Setup Forums<br />
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vBulletin SEO<br />
vBulletin Templates</h1>
</BODY>
</HTML>
This is what I have in the index.html
The meta tag is the one that is redirecting to the URL.
There are many ways to do this, a quick google search for "301 redirect" will bring back more examples
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#5   04-29-2008, 09:32 PM
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Re: Additional urls pointing to homepage?


You know...

Google and Yahoo frown heavily on link funnels, like other domains, funneling traffic to another site. Your pagerank could be penalized, and you take a chance of having your pages removed from both Google and Yahoo.

At least, that's the impression I was under.
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#6   04-30-2008, 09:16 AM
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Re: Additional urls pointing to homepage?


Wow, is that right? I have Walt Disney Boards and I bought www.waltdisneymessageboards.com and just want them both to point to the same homepage. Is there a way that I can do this without being considered a 'bad' thing?
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A 301 redirect will not affect your PR or google pages.

Have a look here...

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http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
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#8   05-01-2008, 10:09 AM
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Re: Additional urls pointing to homepage?


Thanks for the info glennybee!

Good information to use in the near future for me.
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