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Our rankings report is showing inaccurate numbers for the improved, declined, and unchanged summary, both in the email and on the site.  According to the added up numbers, we have 315 keywords in the campaign, but that's not possible as we only have 172 set up for it.  The total for this section is correct, it just doesn't add up.

It seems like the answer isn't so much the quantity of domains, but how each individual domain is used.  So I think what I'll do is look out for any domains with a bad link profile, but leave the rest for type-in traffic.

I've searched around on the Google forums, and other sources (including the Q&A!), but haven't seen a solid answer on this one.

I've recently discovered that throughout the years we've had several hundred domains pointed to our homepage. These are our domains and are related to our niche. I believe they were pointed for the purposes of attracting type-in traffic.

Before last month I knew at least some existed, but I didn't realize the extent until last week.

I know there isn't any positive SEO effect to doing this (except perhaps if any of the domains have links to them, and a few do), but is there any negative SEO effect?  I realize that there are legitimate redirects for type-in traffic, like misspellings and such, but most of these are just exact-match-domains. It just screams unnatural to me, but perhaps I'm just a little paranoid.