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Hi,
Most of our domains are forwarded - I don't have any statistical facts to show this is better but we like to be able to insert relevant keywords for each domain (very time consuming but you plod through them as you buy them) and whilst forwarded domains are not rated that highly by Google we have always felt that some extra traffic is generated through search engines.
There is also a problem with domains using sedo nameservers if your domain portfolio is not for sale. We have noticed that google listings for some of our domains that were using sedo nameservers and that were not for sale still included sedo's sale text '1.5 million domains for sale etc, etc'. One of our domains had a page 2 listing on google for quite a searched term i.e. ..... jobs and yet many people searching for .... jobs would have disregarded our domain because of the sales pitch being shown above our domain on google. If your main aim is to sell it's not a problem but I've seen many domains owned by members of this forum who aren't selling but have got this same sedo sales pitch on their domains at google. We did raise it with sedo (apparently we're not the only ones to raise the issue) but they say there's nothing the tech team can do at the moment (although they are looking into it) so much traffic is definitely being lost on domains that are not for sale.
It would be very interesting to hear from any member of this forum who has statistical evidence to show which one of changing nameservers or url forwarding is the better.
Kind regards,
Nigel
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