SEO question - beginner website designer needs help!?

[HoneyLegs]

Alright: I'm starting a website, or perhaps a series of websites.

Initially in my head I decided the websites would be structured as follows. There would be one main site, for example http://www.mynameis.com/bill.

I read something on an SEO website talking about how google does not like masking or something else, and would remove sites that did this from their database.

Is what I'm considering doing called masking or forwarding or something, and does google, and other search engines not like this? It's not a problem only setting up the main page, I just thought the site would pull in a lot more people if I had the 50 or 100 other sites automatically linking to the main page.

Please help! I'm new to all this
I don't know if http://www.mynameis.com is a site - I was just using that as an example, the idea I have fits into that structure.
Thank you Sm.mS... you've been really, really helpful.

My idea really has nothing to do with people's names, it's just the structure that would be similar - but I really appreciate your checking for me.

[Sm.mS]

OK, let's start at the beginning:

If you have the idea, get the domain name now and build your concept around the name you actually get.

Setting up your name with subdomains would possible be more relevant: jon.ismyname.com and then run the login from there. Then the user can be redirected to the homepage.

Google will accept multiple submissions from multiple names, but if all of the additional names are simply a redirect to a single domain, Google may see it as spam and either not index the page at all or ban it.

What you suggest is forwarding / masking and should be used with care.

Registering (these are not necessarily available): ismyname.biz, iswhoiam.biz, iswhoiam.net, ismyfirstname.biz & ismyfirstname.net would allow you to do multiple subdomains for each name, but would not necessarily overload the spam detection. Registering 50-100 domains would ring the alarm bells.

Update: Just checked and http://WWW.ISMYFIRST.NAME is currently available.

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