HELP!

[ROBIN]

It's been like 2 weeks since my last stupid post in the Search Engine forum, so ... smileys/smiley4.gif


I don't understand this forward/mask domain name thingy smileys/smiley5.gif


I have 1 hosted site that I use. I have another hosted site that I play with. I have 4 other domain names that have been parked at godaddy for the last 9 months. I know ... why didn't I do something 9 months ago smileys/smiley17.gif Anyways ... what does this mean? I will copy and paste.






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<TD>QUESTION: What is masking and how do I set it up for my domain?</TD>
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ANSWER: Masking works with domain name forwarding. Forwarding redirects all Web traffic for a domain to a specific URL. When someone types your-domain-name.com into a browser, our system will automatically forward or redirect them to your selected destination URL. Forwarding with Masking prevents visitors from knowing that they have been redirected by securing that your domain name remains in the visitor's browser's address bar when he/she is being redirected, thus concealing the actual destination address. The Forwarding with Masking option further enables users to add a title, plus description and keywords Meta tag data to the masked site. Title and Meta tag information is important to a Web site's search engine ranking, but does not influence how a Web site is being displayed.




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ANSWER: Though invisible to end users, title and Meta tags contain vital Web page information, including keywords and page description. The title and Meta tag content is crucial to search-engine positioning, as many search engines incorporate that content Meta data into their ranking algorithms. Meta tags do not affect how a page is displayed. Usually, forwarded domains do not contain Meta data. However, the Forward with Masking option enables you to apply title and Meta data to a forwarded and masked domain.


Is it a good idea to do this? The domains are just parked and i'm not going to renew them3 months from now. I don't really care about the URL being invisible. What I want to know is, can these parked domains be used as a way to get traffic to one of my hosted sites? I read at searchengineworld (I think that was it) that you should link the masked domain to a sub directory of the hosted site. What if you have the same page in another directory? Should the pages be different?


2 weeks ago I tried this. I don't think i did it right smileys/smiley19.gif All 4 of the parked domains showed up on google as indexed. I forwarded/masked one

[ROBIN]

OOPS! Looks like I screwed up this thread with my copy/paste smileys/smiley5.gif You'll just have to scroll a foot or two to the right to read it. LOL smileys/smiley8.gif

[phalaris]

&gt;&gt;&gt;can these parked domains be used as a way to get traffic to one of my hosted sites?


Only way a stand alone domain can bring traffic is if it gets some type-ins or if it has an independent web site of its own. All other masked domains &amp;forwarded domains won't do any good for your rankings/traffic. In fact your only actual site will be harmed by all the confusion between various domains pointing at a single site.


&gt;&gt;&gt;2 weeks ago I tried this.....


Sorry I can't understand what you are trying to sayin this paragraph.


My suggestion, join webmasterworld.com and spend some quality time reading old threads there and you will learn a lot of stuff that way.


2-3 years ago when I startedwith web design and SEO, I was always looking for a short-cut in domain masking and pointing multiple parked domains to a site but I never had any luck in that field. So I know that for a fact that this is total wastage of time. Spend your time in making 6-8 page sites instead.


&gt;&gt;&gt;I'll wait for a smart person to reply


...and no I'm not a smart person. smileys/smiley11.gifI'll rather have professional SEOs like Jaanis and Affiliate answer such questions.

[ROBIN]

"Sorry I can't understand what you are trying to sayin this paragraph."


Don't be sorry.http://www.realitypress.com/img/hug.gif I don't understand what i'm trying to say in most of my paragraphs. That's why i use a lot of emoticons smileys/smiley2.gif


"In fact your only actual site will be harmed by all the confusion between various domains pointing at a single site."


My actual site dropped off google on the same day that I pointed a masked domain to it. If masked domains can harm the site they point to, it would be better to point them to a site that you would like to get rid of smileys/smiley8.gif

[boog]

ROBIN,


DON'T use GoDaddy's forwarding service. I've done this before and Google automatically PR0's those sites.

[PillRoller]

My actual site dropped off google on the same day that I pointed a masked domain to it. If masked domains can harm the site they point to, it would be better to point them to a site that you would like to get rid of smileys/smiley8.gif





Try pointing them to drugstore.com smileys/smiley8.gif