SEO Myth #2 - Buying multiple domains will help my ranking
Monday, March 24th, 2008YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1206413364_0′]={”text”:”something.com”,”weight”:1,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/place/virtual/web_site”],”category”:[”IDENTIFIER”]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1206413364_1′]={”text”:”something.net”,”weight”:1,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/place/virtual/web_site”],”category”:[”IDENTIFIER”]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1206413364_2′]={”text”:”Google”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/company/company_name”,”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/domain”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”],”metaData”:{”canonicalName”:”Google Inc.”,”domain_name”:”Google”,”domain_url”:”http://www.google.com/”,”exchange”:”NMS”,”symbol”:”GOOG”}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1206413364_3′]={”text”:”companynameco.com”,”weight”:1,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/place/virtual/web_site”],”category”:[”IDENTIFIER”]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1206413364_4′]={”text”:”companyname.com”,”weight”:1,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/place/virtual/web_site”],”category”:[”IDENTIFIER”]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1206413364_5′]={”text”:”Linux”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/tag/news/thing”],”category”:[”NEWS”]};It’s a common misconception that buying up additional domain names and pointing them to your main domain will help your site rank better. I only wish it were that easy. If it were, I’d be at GoDaddy buying up every combination of SEO-search-engine-optimization-cincinnati.com, .org, .biz, .info… you get the picture.
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