Domain forward to landing page - good or bad for SEO?

[NHA_DistanceLearning]

Hi Mozzers,

Just recently we acquired a domain (www.nhacaribbean.com) for marketing purposes. Our technical staff used a frame forward to redirect the domain to the landing page http://www.nha.nl/alles-over-nha/Caribbean.aspx, which is only linked in the sitemap (not in the navigational structure of the site).

Now, I'd personally just redirect the domain with a 301. But our CEO really wanted to keep the domain www.nhacaribbean.com visible in the URL bar. My question is: could this (potentially) really hurt rankings for our web site one way or the other?

I'd love to hear from you guys. Thanks in advance.

[netviper]

I don't think it will harm the site SEO wise since Google will not read what is inside of the frame. To Google it is basically a blank page.

| |
|   | <title></span>nhacaribbean.com<span class="webkit-html-tag"></title> |
|   | name='description' content=''> |
|   | name='keywords' content='studie, opleiding, curacao, antillen'> |
|   | |
|   | cols='100%,*' border='0' frameborder='0' framespacing='0'> |
|   | src='http://www.nha.nl/alles-over-nha/Caribbean.aspx'> <noframes>Dit is een frame-forwarding naar: http://www.nha.nl/alles-over-nha/Caribbean.aspx</noframes> |
|   | Dit is een frame-forwarding naar: http://www.nha.nl/alles-over-nha/Caribbean.aspx |
|   | |

I would agree with you on 301'ing it.  Or if it is being used for marketing purposes I would use it as a landing page and then link off the full site.

[NHA_DistanceLearning]

Thanks, Dave. We're going to 301 it, since this page has good SERPs on certain keywords.