301 Redirect?

[Uramark]

Is it black-hat SEO to send bluewidget.com, redwidget.com, and greewidget.com to widgetbrands.com (send all to the same page, or same domain home0?     Since the domain name matching with keywords is important, this strategy makes sense.  It is allowed? How many domains can I 301 redirect to widgetbrands.com if I want to target all the colors of widgets?

I'd be willing to put up a one page keyword article of original content for the search engines to crawl before redirecting the 'bluewidget' page. Would this be necessary

[john4math]

This doesn't really make sense because when you 301 those domains to your regular domain, you'll be passing on all link juice, and those domains won't appear in search results.  You won't get a bonus just for redirecting good keyword domains, unless they have backlinks to them.  Once the search engines crawl the page, and you redirect it, what's stopping the search engines from crawling the page again and picking up the redirect?

This feels to me like it would be gaming the system.  When your instincts tell you that, either it already doesn't work, or if it does, the search engines are working on ignoring it as a signal.

I like Shane's way.

[Jinx14678]

Others may have varying opinions, but I am not sure i see much value in this strategy...

It could gain you some short term benefits (not even sure of that much) but as a longterm strategy it kind of seems like a throw away of resources to attempt an SEO trick.

In my opinion a better strategy would be

widgetbrands.com/bluewidgets

widgetbrands.com/redwidgets

widgetbrands.com/greenwidgets

Of course others may have a completely different view.

Shane