JohnC

Hi Scott Thanks for the reply. A couple follow-ups: Do you know if the search spiders have a preference in regard to 'cloaking'? If a domain is forwarded as 'cloaked' vs regular forwarding, does this have any implication by way of SEO? I suppose when you say 'dangerous' you are worried about intent to mislead - which was not how the question was intended. For example, if I have a hard to remember domain name that is hosted, then want to create a "support" page - it would make sense to acquire an easy to remember domain name and forward it to the support page at the existing hosted domain. My question was in this context, and from SEO point of view: 1) would it be better/worse to use "cloaked" forwarding, or would that not make any difference 2) if cloaking is used, which meta tags will be used during spidering - the ones contained in the target page, or the ones specified at the forwarding end... Thanks again John

Hi Folks. Appreciate any feedback on the following items: 1) How do serach engine spiders feel about domain forwarding (cloaked and otherwise)? 2) Any wisdom on whether and how it will effect your listing with the major engines? For example, yoursite.com is registered and hosted at TCH (yoursite.com/index.html). You buy a couple of other domains (say, each representing a different product sold at yoursite.com) and want to point to subdomains or a specific pages within the yoursite.com hosted account. Given this scenario, does it matter (from search engine listing point-of-view) if each of these new domains were cloaked and forwarded, or not cloaked? Furthermore, would the ranking be effected in any way if the additional domains were hosted as 'themselves' rather than being forwarded to pages at an existing site? And finally, does multiple redirection have any effect on the listing - e.g. newdomain.com forwarded to a DNS service such as zoneedit from the registrar, then further forwarded through zoneedit to the sub-page or domain within the main site? Hope its not too confusing...appreciate any feedback... Thanks John