Real seo content comes from constantly developing legit links from legit domains. You can’t fool the search engines guys. So don’t even consider it. If your users are hooked on the old site, and then create an extension(the bright idea) on a completely new kwr domain. YOUR USERS WILL FOLLOW I PROMISE. This fix is easy, simply snip content from the new site and write about the snippet on your old site. (think twitter)

TWO THINGS JUST HAPPENED here! You get a link to new domain(which will help those big 3 rankings) and you can slowly over time get your current users to know your new look by slowly converting them.

Now you might be saying I don’t want a new site, and that you just want to create a new keyword rich domain for your non-rich domain. It’s gonna take some work my friend. Ensuring that a website that has stayed current (meaning your updating regularly) will not get hurt in the serps in the long run if you mask and simply attempting to change the site from index to no index will never happen. Adding the 301 is possible but I hope you have good seo/techs on your side. Cuzzzzz we’re talking time over here.

Do you wanna really know how to get it done? Pay the guys teaching you for their guidance! Better yet, get them to take care of it for you. You’ll quickly learn it’s better to hire a good team rather than figuring it out yourself. Not to mention it can be very cost effective if your time is valuable.

There seems to be some confusion with everyone about this subject. As the article reads, if you have read it, states that masking your domains will ultimately end up being ‘sandboxed’ by Google. It’s not guaranteed though (lol) so make the decision you feel is cost effective.

I find it quite interesting however that people wouldn’t want to take the time to build multiple sites if they are considering masking anyways. We’re talking apples and oranges here. If you have an awesome site with great content, and then strike a light bulb for a new look or branding idea go for the new look with the support of the old one! Which is described in this article.

Please, Clearly create two sites that TRANSPARENTLY link together. If you are worried about possible issues with the users then in my opinion it kinda sounds like you don’t have decent content anyways. Personally, if it were me I’d make a majority of those ‘clarified links’ banner ads in the first place and ultimately attempt to get my seo from outside my own network. As I believe in only creating great ‘generic’ content on every website of mine(unless it is a branded domain). Since you don’t know what your seo campaign will do in the first place, or if in the future you may just lose interest all together wouldn’t you like to sell or lease your domain complete and turnkey?

SEO TODAY SHOULDN’T BE YOUR FOCUS IF YOU ARE REALLY USING SERPS TO GENERATE USERS IN THE FIRST PLACE. THINK ABOUT, TAKE A SECOND. SERPS NOW EXTEND YOUR CONTENT PARALLEL TO/WITH ALL SITES WE CURRENTLY USE JUST LIKE http://WWW.YOURSEOPLAN.COM -FACEBOOK -TWEETIE TWEETS- AND GMAIL FOR INSTANCE. LET IT FLOW;GET YOUR OWN;AND LASTLY IF YOU REALLY WANNA HAVE A SITE MASKED WITH HUNDREDS OF DOMAINS i RECOMMEND MAKING IT AN AFFILIATE SITE! BUT THATS A WHOLE OTHER TOPIC.

I feel we often make things harder than they really are. 301′S are the way to go if your just trying to rebrand. Look at overstock.com, great example, are branding as o.co, but just uses it to redirect. Think of it as another billboard pointing to the good stuff.

At the moment, we’re hosting with Google and using the DNS Manager simply have an A record from the non-hyphenated domain name point to the hyphenated domain name. But we have issues with a Google Map (GMAP) mashup, specifically the key looks for the hyphenated domain, and throws a Javascript alert that the GMAP key is invalid, when you visit it with the non-hyphenated domain name. And with Google Analytics, you can’t use the cross-domain feature as with the A record there’s no place to insert the GA code for the non-hyphenated domain name.

So we’d like to use the masking option, so people see the hyphenated domain name, but we also fear being penalized by the crawlers/spiders.

Thoughts?

I did consider doing this with my site [redacted] with another I purchased a week ago but thought better of it now. It would be better just creating new content for the new domain name.

Thanks,
Neil

This subject still confuses most people in the SEO trade, I would suggest avoiding this measure in a production environment – if you would like to see the results do this with two test sites, the indexing will take some time but you will see the results.

I did consider doing this with my site http://www.u123.co.uk with another I purchased a week ago but thought better of it now. It would be better just creating new content for the new domain name.