OK say for example you have a website, for argument's sake it's called "roadrunnertaxis.co.uk". Now, if Roadrunner Taxis were based in Manchester, what would be the benefits of having another domain, for example "manchester-taxis.co.uk" but instead of having a seperate website for it, you just simply pointed it to the "roadrunnertaxis.co.uk" website?

 

Would you get any duplicate content penalties from Google?

 

If you typed in "manchester taxi" or "manchester taxis" in Google, would this bring the "roadrunnertaxis.co.uk" website up higher up the SERPs? Or would it bring up the "manchester-taxis.co.uk" website link even though it's not a 'proper' website and simply redirects to the "roadrunnertaxis.co.uk" website?

 

BTW the above names/domain names are just used for the purpose of my example and should not be taken literally!

 

Thanks

Hi,

 

Purchasing that domain name would certainly improve the rankings of the roadrunnertaxis.co.uk website. That is for sure.

 

With regards to what Google would display, it may well display both in the SERPS. It would definitely increase the rankings of both websites.

 

You would need to set-up a 301 permanent redirect for both SEO purposes and in order to not get penalised by Google.

 

My website www.websitedesignliverpool.com enjoys a number 7 ranking in the uk search results and a number 4 ranking globally for the keyword phrase 'Website Design Liverpool'. This is with very minimal SEO, and I mean very minimal.

 

Hope this helps.

Hi,

 

Purchasing that domain name would certainly improve the rankings of the roadrunnertaxis.co.uk website. That is for sure.

 

With regards to what Google would display, it may well display both in the SERPS. It would definitely increase the rankings of both websites.

 

You would need to set-up a 301 permanent redirect for both SEO purposes and in order to not get penalised by Google.

 

My website www.websitedesignliverpool.com enjoys a number 7 ranking in the uk search results and a number 4 ranking globally for the keyword phrase 'Website Design Liverpool'. This is with very minimal SEO, and I mean very minimal.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Agreed but If I was in that situation I would possibly have two websites, if it's a high traffic keyword and your you have 2 results on page one. You will get good traffic and you can use each other website to promote each other.

 

But you will need unique content on both website! This also won't bring fast results you might get a sandbox effect for a couple months.

Great question. in short, URLs have a massive weight in on page SEO.

 

Setting up a redirect/301 will tell google to ignore you geo url and go straight to the other URL. Personally, I would copy ur other site onto the new domain, google penalized duplicate content internally but not externally so you should be ok, but it wouldnt take to long to change some words etc.

 

What are the actual keywords your looking at?

Just did some more research on Google and found this link:

 

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/29976.htm

 

I'm almost certain that the PR from will pass to the refering site - so your old domain PR should increase the PR of your new site. Although it may not be as expected... an example is if site A with PR of 5 redirects to site B with PR of 5, you might still end up with PR of 5, but most probably a stronger one. An other example is if Site A with PR of 5 redirects to site B which has 0 PR, then the chances are that site B will obtain PR of 5. A 5 redirecting to another 5 will never make the second site 10...

 

Anyway, the short of it all is yes, redirect your old site and the ranking will increase, but perhaps not visually (i.e. in the PR toolbar), but it should increase in strength (i.e. from a low PR5 to a stronger PR5 or PR6..)

 

That thread dates back to 2005 but I assume it still applies?

And this one (from 2007):

 

http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3370505.htm

 

Dear experts,

 

I have domainA and domainB. I didn't have a website configured for domainB so Apache was serving up domainA content when someone had requested domainB.

 

I discovered this recently after finding that domainB was thoroughly indexed by google and had the same page rank as domainA.

 

I figured the best solution would be to setup a redirect for domainB:

 

Redirect 301 / http://domainA/

 

This works great in seamlessly redirecting all requests without throwing up 404 pages and such, but I just want to make sure that this indeed is the best way to go in terms not getting punished by google, loosing page rank, etc.

 

thanks much in advance, -Alain.