New web addresses, same site, will it help?

Um I think using a permanent web re-direct is likely to get your greylisted on Google.

That's a bad thing. You do not want to be on the greylist.
 
Thanks for the advice lads and lasses. I will let you know my mileage in a month or two.

I might put a little different content on each, just a little tweak, to see if it makes a difference to Google.

Appreciate the input as always, thanks.

Ian-B
 
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your homepage has no meta tags for keywords or description, and no text, which means that the search engines have nothing to 'get hold of', I think they would help more than a change of domain name
 
You'd be better off getting your new name hosted properly and the old site copied to your new site then a permanent re-direct used to send customers to your new site.

In this way you won't get greylisted by Google as they actually recommend this method.
 
I doubt it will help. It may make matters slightly worse. Changing your domain name is about as much good as adding a new keyword on the page somewhere. So that's the positive. The negative is, all your incoming links from directories, articles and other sites will be pointing to your old domain making it a stronger domain. Google also adds a lot of SEO weight to mature domains - the fact that it will be brand new will mean that for a while google will sort of not trust it. It likes to see that a domain has been around for a while and isn't a quick seo or spam attempt. And changing all your inbound links to point at the new domain will cause even more harm as google doesn't trust a sudden influx of links to a new domain. They have to be added gradually over time.
 
backstage pass said:
Um I think using a permanent web re-direct is likely to get your greylisted on Google.

That's a bad thing. You do not want to be on the greylist.
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why would it get you greylisted? Lots of site use re-directs

www.news.co.uk goes to the times for example. I can understand those domains you just redirect not listing well - but why grey list?
 
As someone mentioned above, your site doesnt really have anything for search engines to index with.

Google doesnt use meta tags but other search engines do
Google does index using keywords and it helps when they are within structed HTML such as Heading and Paragraph tags
 
you can resolve multiple domains to a single webspace, or, you can use a redirect from one domain to another

However you will need to validate each site in Google webmaster tools, and then tell google to de-list all but the main one (also in webmaster tools). You do this to avoid the duplicate content penalty

While messing with domain names may give a slight increase in position. In the general case getting excellent, well structured, unique content, with correctly set up META information, will make massive differences, regardless of the domain name. You may want to know that Bing also rewards permanence, which will dissolve if you chop and change domains

On the subject of content - the only content search engines really index is text. Photographers seem to ignore this (we are pushing images)
 
backstage pass said:
Um I think using a permanent web re-direct is likely to get your greylisted on Google.

That's a bad thing. You do not want to be on the greylist.
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Actually I think Google recommends permanent re-directs if you have moved your domain. Having multiple domains all pointing to the same domain is not going to hurt. And the keywords in your new domain will definitely help, and lets face it having a domain that is easy to remember isn't really going to help that much unless people are already looking for you by name. They probably will find you using Google, so yeah keywords are great.
 
you dont have to be so concerned about meta data, nothing of importance indexes with that method now, but for the sake of 2 mins work to copy and paste some basic info it wouldnt hurt.

H1 tags on each page are important, and what is written there.
The title of the page is key, along with the content... amke sure you have relevant keywords all matching up.

Then build up your links :)
 
I dont think you need to change your domain, just read up on some basic SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and make sure you submit sitemaps etc.

You should notice a change within a few weeks :)
 
evilonion said:
you dont have to be so concerned about meta data, nothing of importance indexes with that method now, but for the sake of 2 mins work to copy and paste some basic info it wouldnt hurt.
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Google couldn't care less what your keywords meta tag contains but some of the smaller search engines still use them so they are definately worth having.

The description meta tag is really important though. Whatever you put in there will be shown on your google listing underneath the main link. If it's keyword rich and enticing it will get them to click. If you don't use it, you may end up with a google listed description full of alt tag info or so little of your first paragraph that it isn't helpful.
 
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