Identity Crisis??

[cz]

One of our sites opened as "Personal Defense Systems". A.K.A. "personaldefensesystems.stores.yahoo.net" A.K.A. "store.yahoo.com/personaldefensesystems". We bought the domain Safety Enforcement.com for it around 2003? And dropped the other. We use a "fixed URL" tweak (will only resolve to the chosen URL) and now Y!'s domain re-direct tool to double up on the Safety Enforcement.com domain. We've never had a bit of trouble and have always been listed as Safety Enforcement.

We're building another store and taking the parked domain Personal Defense System out of mothballs for the site. I'm wondering if we'll have SE troubles out of the chute? Here's why.

I did two Google searches, one for link:store.yahoo.com/personaldefensesystems and got a bunch of links but they were to Safety Enforcement not the URL searched for - "personaldefensesystems."

Then we searched "store.yahoo.com/personaldefensesystems" w/o quotes we got a single result - the home page of Safety Enforcement.

So the redirects work and all variations of the storenames lead either to a "page not found" or in these two cases, inbound links that say Safety Enforcement.com (from product pages listed as links but are also items on the current site). In the second scenario where we typed the proper URL www. personaldefensesystems. com there was only one result which was the new domain Safety Enforcement.com

So would you think it is safe to use personaldefensesystems. com given the above information or is it too dicey? I'd like to use the domain again for another store - as mentioned. Thanks!

[incrediblehelp]

so Safety Enforcement.com is going to be the new main website going forward?

[cz]

Hi Incredible,
Safety Enforcement will continue running and a new site - hopefully - Personal Defense Systems is getting ready to launch.

That's the "rub". Personal Defense Systems "used to be" the Safety Enforcement site's URL about 4 years ago but was changed to the new URL and now it isn't indexed and is in GoDaddy parking all of this time.

In a Y! store, they create little subdomains for you like store.yahoo.com/personaldefensesystems and another with a ".net" ending. When I log into my store's backend it displays as "personaldefensesystems:store" even though the domain and title are Safety Enforcement and Safety Enforcement.com. This domain has not been pointed at that or any other store in several years.

I only worried because if I type link:www. personal defense systems.com into Google, it returns all of my links but they say www. safety enforcement.com (as if GG knows something was going on or is going on with the PDSystems URL).

Maybe I'm paranoid but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot right out of the gate. I'd sure like to use the domain though if you think it will pass GG inspection?

Thanks!

[incrediblehelp]

I guess I failing to see the issue. When I type link:Stun Guns, Pepper Spray, Alarms, Weapons - Self Defense Products in Google I get some solid back links. When I type link:personaldefensesystems.com coming soon! i get nothing since this domains is parked. I don't see any issues with both domains being live at the same time as long as the content is different.

[cz]

Thanks for the confirmation Incrediblehelp! Will go ahead and open with that parked domain. If you fail to see the issue then there mustn't be one!

[incrediblehelp]

cz feel free to send me the links when everything is live and I will review to make sure.

[cz]

Thanks very much for your help Jaan. I will take you up on that offer in about a month from now. The site is being built right now.