Possible Duplicate:Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Scenario:I have a site called for example foodeals.com and a new bought domain greatfooforyou.com that simply does a 301 redirect to the main siteQuestion:do search engines index greatfooforyou.com at all?Is it possible that, one day, searching for great foo for you keywords, I will find the greatfooforyou.com exploiting the exact match of the search?
Do search engines index a new domain that just redirect to the main site?
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Simply put, no. You are indicating 301, which is a permanent redirect. There is no need to index that new domain. I have done this too (over a period of three years), to prevent others from hijacking similar domain names and they've never shown up in search results.