: Does same domain name, but with multiple extensions (com,org...) help for page rank? Here's my (short) story: I've made a website for a customer that didn't pay me. He bought a lot of domains:

@Cofer257

First, to clear up something: PageRank (all one word) is a special algorithm that ranks pages based on how many incoming links it has and how important those links are. It is a number from 1 to 10. So if you are wondering why groupesynergies.com has a higher PageRank it would be purely because it has more and higher quality links pointing to it.

However from the context of your question I'm assuming you are talking about the page's position in search results (often confusingly called 'page ranking' but better known as 'SERPs position' or 'search position'). There are a few factors:


Google has an 'exact match domain' boost for when your query exactly matches a domain name. This doesn't include hyphenated domain names, so your domain is immediately at a small disadvantage.
If you did a ton of SEO for the original site such as getting links pointing to it, then it will be better ranked. If you are able to, change those links to point to the new site.
Google has no way of knowing that your domain is a 'new version' of the old one, unless you tell it. The method for this is a 301 redirect, so if it's possible you should add those domains back to your vhost and set them all to redirect to the new site.
The fact that the new site has 24 pages but the old site only has one is irrelevant, since SEs rank pages not sites. The query returns just the home page.


I must say that it is strange for a site to rank so high when it doesn't even contain the phrase you are searching for, and has clearly zero content. Maybe Google.fr still has a high weight for the exact match domain, and hasn't rolled out any of the 'Panda' updates that it has in English results.

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@Cofer257

I don't know the INs and OUTs of Google page ranking but buying multiple domain names will not blacklist you on Google... creating duplicate content on different domain names will certainly blacklist you. (The solution would be creating a 301 redirect to one central site)

As his site has no content, it wont come up high up in Google search. If he started to add meaningful content, it will start appearing. But once Google bot realises it's duplicate content, it will also hurt your ranking on the search.

There won't be nothing stopping him ripping of the content from your source unfortunately.

Oh and +1 for using Modx ;)

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