Real Estate Marketing Tip Of The Month

**San Diego Real Estate** · 05-22-2005, 04:08 PM

Great Tips Guys...

How about a free Physical Inspection, Home Warranty or Appraisal?

**NashuaWebDesign** · 07-28-2005, 06:01 PM

An even cleaner way:

Get different domain names (www.Miamihomes.com, www.MiamiCondos.com, www.MiamiRentals.com). They're a whole $9 each. FORWARD these domains to your regular website. Make sure you have a good hit counter on your site (I use Sitemeter.com). You can see exactly which domains are bringing in traffic! Plus, the domain names you advertise are easier to remember, and much shorter than www.MiamiHomes.com/publication.html

**frobn** · 07-28-2005, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by NashuaWebDesign

An even cleaner way:

Get different domain names (www.Miamihomes.com, www.MiamiCondos.com, www.MiamiRentals.com). They're a whole $9 each. FORWARD these domains to your regular website. Make sure you have a good hit counter on your site (I use Sitemeter.com). You can see exactly which domains are bringing in traffic! Plus, the domain names you advertise are easier to remember, and much shorter than www.MiamiHomes.com/publication.html

What is the difference between the above and "doorway" sites?

**judyo** · 08-05-2005, 12:38 PM

I have diffferent domain names for my sites (a long descriptive name with keywords in it and a short, easy to remember name for off-line marketing). I do not forward these to my default domain (the descriptive url), I use a 301 redirect.

How does one simply "forward" a domain name & could it be construed as duplicate content by doing it this way? Is this what a 302 redirect is & why have I heard that this shouldn't be done?

I could use several easy to remember short urls for marketing efforts but I really would like to know the proper way to do this.

**NashuaWebDesign** · 08-05-2005, 12:45 PM

I usually register all domains at GoDaddy, and that's a feature they have built in. Essentially, it sets up a frame container with no "top" section.. that's all it really is. That way the title of the forwarded name is at the top, but the site itself is the site you forwarded to. It is NOT a redirect and it is NOT duplicate content.

**KSA** · 08-05-2005, 12:51 PM

Nashua,

I'd recommend checking that GoDaddy forward. In my experience, it does come out as a 302 redirect, which isn't good for the search engines.

Try this site: http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi...ervercheck.cgi

Enter the domain name that you forwarded at GoDaddy. If it says:

Status: 302

that's not the best way to point the name to your site. You should use a 301 redirect.

Kathleen

**NashuaWebDesign** · 08-05-2005, 01:01 PM

Server Response: http://www.agentNH.com
Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:00:42 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_pointer/0.8 PHP/4.3.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

Server Header Checker
URL
User: 24.41.2.180 re

**KSA** · 08-05-2005, 01:15 PM

Well, I'm confused. I have a domain name forwarded with GoDaddy, and here are its stats:

Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:13:23 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_pointer/0.8 PHP/4.3.2
X-Redirected-By: mod_pointer - http://stderr.net/mod_pointer/
Location: https://www.securepaynet.net/gdshop/...g_id=k234allar
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

I am not trying to rank with the SEs, so I don't really care. But, Nashua, how did you get yours to do a 301??

**Real Estate Forum** · 08-05-2005, 01:22 PM

Have you guys tried any of these? http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ They work well for me for just about anything. btw I used to do free redirects with http://www.mydomain.com and those have worked well.