Is this White hat or Black Hat
-
Can we use Domain masking/URL masking? How google see this?
Orignal domain - http://mstylecrazy.comMasked domain - Bestupforyou.comIs this also creates duplicate content? and Is this invite google penality?
-
Whenever you use domain "masking", you're setting yourself up for search engine ranking problems. You're essentially making the same content available on both domain names. That leads to duplicate content, and the search engines (mainly Google) will pick which domain they prefer and show that on in the search results (usually the one that they crawl first).
The only proper way to deal with this is to set up 301 Permanent Redirects from one domain to the other.
-
Given that you're using an iframe on the link you gave, Google will just see the second domain as a type of scraper and probably disregard it. If the "best" domain is your primary domain it's probably not a big deal. The iframed site will just never rank for anything. It's not ideal, though, because any links on the second site will not help you.
Out of curiousity - why are you doing this? It's at least a strange experience for the user to see the site with a title and logo that doesn't match the domain. If it's for tracking, there has to be a better way. If it's for domain name, I think you can create a better brand and get that domain. This is partly unsolicited advice, but "bestup" doesn't really make sense to most people. You'd probably get a lot further with something like "John D. Makeup" and the matching domain (in my example johnpmakeup) won't require these strange concatenations.
-
Yes, the problem with domain masking is that it creates duplicate content in search engines, particularly Google. Google would see the two domains serving the same content.
Search engines will identify these domains as duplicates and decide to serve one over the other; and most times it’s not always the one you want.
Can i ask the reason you are thinking about a mask?
Danny
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Subdomained White-Label Sites
Wanted to pass along a specific use-case that I'm thinking through in the technical setup for a client. Site: http://www.abc.com is an ecommerce company that offers the ability to white-label a site so an affiliate can join and get access to the site, and ultimately get a cut of whatever is sold through that affiliate. So I join the site and get access to scott.xyz.com and can handle my business through that. From a technical standpoint, this is the proposed technical setup of the site. Canonical URLS will be set to www.xyz.com Pages on scott.xyz.com will be set to noindex, while the main www.xyz.com will be set to be indexed Webmaster Tools for scott.xyz.com will be set to have preferred domain of www.xyz.com scott.xyz.com will have separate robots.txt instructing to block crawl Questions Am I missing any steps in properly setting up the technical background of the subdomain sites? The use of subdomains isn't something that I am able to move away from. Will any links in to scott.xyz.com pass juice and authority to www.xyz.com, or does the noindex/nocrawl block that from happening? Is there anything else that I am missing? Thanks!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | RosemarieReed
Scott0 -
I am being black hat SEO'd by another company. What should I do?
Hi There, I found out about 6 months ago that I have been getting black hat SEO'd by another company. There are around 350 spammy domains pointing to my home page and product page. I have disavowed a lot of them. Is there anything else I can do? http://bareblends.com.au/ http://bareblends.com.au/the-optimum-9400-blender Thanks!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Oscarmj0 -
Are doorway pages black hat or white hat?
I am asking because I keep creating spam reports on google web master tools when I find them on competitors websites but nothing happen... Anyone else had better experience with spam reports?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | max.favilli0 -
Seo black hat tricks
I have a competitor in the local area. He registered a new domain name. www.orangecountypatentlawfirm.com. It was created back in 11/10 and updated a few months ago on 11/13. My domain is ocpatentlawyer.com. I put my domain and his domain in the open site explorer. The peculiar thing is that my competitors website mirrors identically to my domain. (see attached image) my competitors website rose through the SERP very fast. I never saw it coming. Anyways, I wanted to know if he was using some type of black hat seo trick to hi jack my domain authority to get his own website to rank higher? Plus, if so, does it hurt my ranking? compare.png
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jamesjd710 -
Black Hat :(
Hello folks! Name is Mike, i'd like to ask some of you your opinion on this matter. My company hired an SEO company (reputable company in LA) to get our rankings where we want them to be. They've been somewhat successful, we were actually quite happy with their performance. I do mostly print marketing and graphic design for my company, I do manage our website and online store. As a cost saving measure we've decided to cut their service (expensive) and the SEO is now brought in-house - that means its my responsibility now. By no means am I a complete newbie, I pretty much know what I need to do in order to maintain our rankings and improve as well. And with the knowledgebase here at SEOMOZ i should be fine (i hope). Thing is that I have asked our previous SEO company to supply a list of all inbound links they created. They've been silent, no response. Am I asking for too much?? I ran some of my links through OpenSite Explorer (great tool by the way) and found tons of incoming links using black hat tactics. I don't see how anybody could benefit making these links but the SEO company who we recently got rid of. I am quite certain they are responsible for these links. Black hat tactics such as keyword stuffing and anchor links (with very small font) on the footer of some random website. Kinda upsets me that we paid so much money for this type of crap. They never offered any advise with respect to on-site SEO which I am now finding out I have a lot of on-site optimizing thank to SEOMOZ. I don't know if its such a big deal or if am simply overreacting. I am concerned of my company's site getting penalized by the search engines and making my job as in-house SEO much more dificult. Is this a big deal? Should I ignore it and begin building my own quality links and content? Thanks
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | mike_sif0 -
Widespread Ranking Drops for Strong, White Hat sites
Hi Moz, A few of our sites experienced widespread ranking drops across all keywords this morning. Both of these are very strong sites with a high DA (56), moz rank and moz trust above 5. We haven't been doing any black hat SEO, creating spammy links, or paying for links. Is anyone else seeing anything similar or have any ideas as to what type of Algorithm update this might be? We currently rank 67th for our name.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | OneClickVentures0 -
I do a lot of on page SEO... I was wondering some basic tactics / strategies for link building? Please provide only WHITE HAT suggestions! Thank You ;)
Please keep in mind google's announcement on links recently.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | entourage2120 -
I tried the directorie list of seomoz, but almost all of them charged for the inclusion. This is a black hat situation?
I need backlinks for my site, and several places inform that directories are a good place. But they charge for the inclusion. Should I pay? This is a blackhat situation where I'm buying for links?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Naghirniac0