I run into this issue often: a doctor wants to purchase up a bunch of domain names and point them at his or her site.
It sounds like a great strategy. The theory behind it is that, the more domain names, the more likely patients will find their website.
But it’s wrong. In fact, multiple domain names might actually hurt your search engine ranking.
The problem is “duplicate content.” Here’s what Google has to say about this issue.
This is what happens when you have many domains pointing at the same site: Google’s index looks at the pages from each domain and sees that they’re identical. Because they’re duplications, Google ranks all of the sites lower in its search algorithm.
The end result: most of your domains won’t appear even close to the first page of the search results.
I hope you find this information helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call at (800) 295-3346 or email me here: mike@chirohosting.com.