domain free url forwarding and search engines...

[miam]

Hello,
How do search engines consider web sites that use the domain url forwarding (masked) feature? I see that some domain name registrars provide meta tag, key word and title features exacly for that matter (cleverdot.com), but does it really help? Wich domain name registrar provide free masked url forwarding (without ad banners etc) with the meta tag/key word option? What about namecheap?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts

miam

 

[Omni]

In my opinion, since there are several thousands of websites making use of url forwarding, it would make sense for search engines to take into account of them. Hence, I think it could be reasonable to conclude it to be a yes. No evidence for or against it though.

 

[miam]

search engines and cloaking

What I meant was:
if i do a website using a registered domain name www.mysite.com
and point it to lets say
http://users.geocities.com/floppyperso/~blabla.html using the masked (cloaked) url forwarding feature. How would this website be referenced by google or other search engines? Would they point the content of my website to the www.mysite.com url or (as i believe) woulds they rather point it to http://users.geocities.com/floppyperso/~blabla.html ??
That would mean that a changement of free webhost would disrupt search engine references?
Any idea about this?

 

[Loon]

I think some short url services get listed and some don't

For example i used a vze.com address (cloaked) as the url for my site for quite a while, and i actually got some good traffic from google and yahoo, and it's listed there as the .vze.com address