What’s the Advantage of a Standalone vs. a Redirect Page?

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Pat Flynn

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🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Chris has a question about websites. He asks: What is the advantage to having a page hosted as a standalone website as opposed to a redirect within your own website? Chris’ website is http://safetydawg.com. Do you have a question about websites? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to ZipRecruiter for sponsoring today's episode. Go to http://www.ziprecruiter.com/pat to get started posting jobs today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.com.
0:07.0	Hey, what's up, everybody, Patflin here, and welcome to episode 960 of AskPath.
0:14.6	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.2	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.9	All right, now, here's today's question from Chris.
0:22.6	Hey, Pat, Chris Harris.
0:24.2	Safety Dog, that's DAWG.
0:27.8	On a recent SBI podcast, you had mentioned that you own several websites.
0:32.8	Some of them you host as a website, and some of them you have them redirected back to your SPI page
0:41.7	and the website virtually is a page on your SPI site.
0:47.4	So my question is, since I too own several websites, why do you do that?
0:53.4	What is the advantage to hosting it separately as a
0:56.8	standalone website? And then for a different URL, why do you have it directed back to your SPI
1:05.4	website on a specific page? So that's my question, Pat. Thanks so much.
1:13.2	Thanks for everything you do for us.
1:14.5	Hey, Chris, what's up?
1:15.6	Thank you so much for the question.
1:17.9	So there's a couple pieces to this.
1:20.5	One, there's the redirect what you're talking about,
1:23.6	which I typically get a domain name on GoDaddy,
1:29.8	and you type in that domain name in the field there in your browser and then it redirects you to a page on SPI.
1:32.0	Now the reason I do that is because some pages on SPI, I really, really want it to be easy for
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