Best way to redirect all TLD's to one .com?
 

I know there's lots of ways to do this, but which one is best for SEO purposes?

I just bought 6 domains - the .com, plus 5 other TLD's, and want to redirect the 5 duff ones to the .com. In theory that should give me 5 links to the .com from the off, albeit host on the same domain.

Best to do a low level redirect? 200 redirect? Simple one page on the .net etc saying moved click here? Some other way?

Any help appreciated.

If all you're doing with the domains is redirecting typein's, then what would be the benefit of doing anything other than redirecting? Maybe there's some se benefit I don't know about, but if you don't plan to optimize, build links and get traffic to the placeholders, they might as well just redirect your typeins?

probably just point them to the .com with your registrar control panel and concentrate on the main site...

Well, the easiest way would be to set:

@ IN A IP.OF.OTHER.DOTCOM.HERE.COM
* IN A IP.OF.OTHER.DOTCOM.HERE.COM

In DNS.

Then just tell your webserver to use a WildCard, or IP based scheme. Read the Host: HTTP/1.1 header, and dump that on the page like every other worthless pageholder out there.

I don't think you mean a '200' redirect; I assume you mean a 301.. but that's still not quite as 'nice' and just forcing it to resolve to the same place. You will be penalized for that by Google.

The plan was to give each of the lesser TLD's a few links in, then they redirect in such a way search engines will recognise they have "yielded" to the .com domain. So in theory that's 5 fairly good links already.

If I do it low level at the registrar, I'm not sure the spiders will follow and give the .com the benefit. Fricken confusing!

Thanks GrouchyAdmin. Yep, meant 301, brain needs coffee to wake up.

Looks like low level it is.

I've done this with GoDaddy. Eventually the main domains would slide back and the domains that pointed to it would beat it.
Webconfs.com SEFriendly checker even ok'd it as se friendly, but Google likes the redirected domains better :(

Just checked the same url with the SEOChat checker and it did say the Godaddy forwarder is NOT se friendly.
woops

I've done a 301 redirect in htaccess. apparently that's the cleanest way to do it without chance of penalisation....supposedly...

couldn't agree more! :thumbsup

Park em and add this into your htaccess:

Redirect to www or another domain (htaccess redirect)

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to dwhs.com will get redirected to www.dwhs.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed) it will look like this:

Please REPLACE domain.com and www.dwhs.com with your actual domain name.

If you have a parked domain then add the same thing for the www. and without the www. version in the htaccess so ti will look like this:

A 301 redirect is the best SEO-wise...
http://www.seobook.com/archives/001714.shtml

Kektex is absolutely right with the above... 301 is a permenent redirection to the new website, and (if given a choice) that is the choice to take... positively effects both page's rank. Cheers!

Yep, 301 is the only clean and safe solution for search engines

quick meta refresh works

301 redirects for sure