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Open Question: Is having multiple domains display the same content considered black hat SEO or will it otherwise hurt rank?

9 September 2010, 10:42 am

Let's say my name is Got Answers, and I'm in the chair selling business. I want as much organic SEO traffic as possible, in addition to my PPC traffic. I meet a lot of people around town, and of course, I have friends I've known a long time. My business card says gotanswers(dot)com on it b/c that's my name and how they know me. On the other hand, people I don't know who might be searching the web, might be more inclined to click on a link that says chairsalesman(dot)com and maybe even if I live in Boise Idaho I might want one that says chairsalesmanboise(dot)com . I have the same webpage I just want to upload it to several different domains to increase exposure and marketing. I've been reading Google Webmaster topics and can't decide if this will help, hurt, or have no impact on my organic results. What do you think? I figure it will at worst have no impact, I'm not really trying to trick the search engines, I'm just trying to make myself marketable to people I know, people I just met, people I've never met, etc.. and various urls might play better with different people..... Read More »

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