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URLs – How many do you own & use? (12 posts)

Topic tags: urls, websites

Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Just curious how many people own multiple urls to brand different products/services? Are you actively promoting them and just using a redirect?
Pros and cons to the use of multiple urls?
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Bill Napier said
1 year, 1 month ago:
I have found they only work when you have a landing page and when they use the menu, it redirects
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Trudy Doolittle said
1 year, 1 month ago:
You might want to consider a sub-domain. So your main site is http://www.yoursite.com.The subdomain would be your section.yoursite.com. That way you can refer to your landing page/or section without going out and getting a new domain. I have a sub domain for my mobile website…..m.eiijd.com. I resides in a folder within my website.
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Trudy Doolittle said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Note that you will see the subdomains in Google.maps.google.comadwords.google.comsketchup.google.com
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Kristy C. Cartier said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@joanmuschampfagnani I personally have 4-6 (haven’t looked lately and they’re currently redirected to either LinkedIn or my about.me site). My association only has one site and then uses pages. @trudyd1474 Thanks for the tip on the subdomains. I’ll have to remember that when I develop my sites over the summer.
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Trudy Doolittle said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Well the previous post didn’t come out well.
maps.google.com
adwords.google.com
sketchup.google.com
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Thomas Flügge said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@joanmuschampfagnani I have one URL for my business and another that I use as test environment for internet projects for my clients. Since my business is not limited to internet services I did want to separate that. Each project gets its own subdomain on the second URL – the client can visit the project via this unique URL from a certain project stage onwards. Works pretty well.
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Rich Brooks said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@joanmuschampfagnani
My concern w/multiple domains is around SEO. You can really dilute your search engine rankings if you’re not doing it the right way.
If you’re creating unique website for each product or service that can work, but I feel from a strictly SEO standpoint it’s better to have one big target than a bunch of small ones.
Just my .02.
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Joan Muschamp (Fagnani) said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@rich-brooks That’s what I understood, too. But a lot of times for branding purposes it’s easier to have an easy to remember domain name that just points to the one main website. To me, it’s easier to manage as well.
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Ted Kolovos said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Another pro is that it is generally easier to setup a true squeeze page (with no other hyperlinks or calls to action) on a domain separate from your main site. That can lead to higher opt-in rates.
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David Hebert said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Like Ted I like to use separate domains for squeeze pages, sales pages and the main site.
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Melissa Holmes said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@ecumenix
@rich-brooks
Same here as we use one main domain name for our business page and use a separate domain name for clients to preview their projects. But we only use it temporary as to not disturb any SEO toward the client’s url. This has worked well so far – although it has extra steps to remove/delete the files from the server but in the end the client is happy to preview in the comfort of their own space.
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