: How to approach redirecting thirty domains? I have a client with thirty some domain names. All bought for the reason of being close to a competitors domain. They want them all to redirect to

@Yeniel560

If the site "redirects" but keeps the old address in the address bar, then it is not redirecting at all and instead is just displaying the site in an iframe.

You should set the domain to do a 301 Redirect to the new domain. You should be able to do this in your domain's control panel, with no need for hosting. If you are not able to do that, get a better domain name provider.

However, I will also add that owning a ton of domains that just redirect is almost entirely useless. Unless you have lots of links pointing to them, those domains will carry no weight. If your site (or competitor's site) is example.com, just owning myexample.com will not rank that domain or your site when searching for "example".

Moreover, you may get small amounts of traffic through misspellings, but you could be on shaky legal ground if the domains' sole purpose is to drive traffic away from a competitor.

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@LarsenBagley505

You have a few options to forward all the domains


Forward the domains from the registrar account (where they were registered)
Use .htaccess to redirect
Use meta refresh to redirect
PHP redirect (it's not difficult see below)


Domains on the same server linking to each other don't hurt your rankings, it's not bad SEO. How many domains exist on Amazon servers? Or BlueHost who host millions of sites? There is much more coming into account for SEO and this play little into it. Matt Cutts discusses this in a video.

PHP redirect

<?php
header( 'Location: www.yoursite.com/' ) ;
?>

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@Goswami781

Host all domains on one server, for the reality of the matter is, no number of domains containing the same information will help your SEO ranks, they more than likely will hurt them. So if indeed you client needs to have 30-1000 domain names with variations of keywords or typos, its just going to be easier to host them all on the same server. Just much more easier to maintain over time.

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