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Old 20-11-2008, 03:42 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Only a genius could answer this

Ok so I'm an attention seeker obsessed with marketing ;-)

Serious here is my situation.

I have built a site for a client who has this domain name www.abcdefg.com (for example)

She is starting to build some good rank for key terms.

She emailed me today saying the leads are struggling to take down her email address (the site only supplies a for to avoid spam) over the phone and she wants an easier to remeber name.

She now wants www.abc.com with an email address info@abc.com

She would like to brand her business www.abc.com but wants to redirect to www.abcdefg.com

My concern is that SERP results will only show 'www.abcdefg.com' results.

Is it common practice to have a client friendl rul with all your content on a more complex url?

Im relucatnt to chagne everything over to www.abc.com.

Any ideas?

no need for 301 redirects as there will be only one page on ww.abc.com

Thanks
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Old 24-11-2008, 11:46 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: Only a genius could answer this

Yep - Google will look at the target domain, so if domain name abc.com redirects to abcdef.com, then no one will see abc.com and the branding would be worthless.
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