Ranking 301 Redirect Domains?
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Exactly that.
Cnotey
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- Jun 25, 2010
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Actually, I just did this. For my professional services website (my real business). It was ranked #4 for the last year, but I wanted to re-design it. So I bought a new domain, and 301'd the original domain to the new one.
The new site moved right into the old one's place in about a week.
The new site moved right into the old one's place in about a week.
Yes it will.
Should be fine so long as it uses 301. If you want to check use this http://webtools.live2support.com/header.php
Type in the full url (including the http://) and press check, it will tell you if a 301 is in place.
Type in the full url (including the http://) and press check, it will tell you if a 301 is in place.
critman
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- Apr 19, 2011
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A quick question - say the 301'd domain is ranking well for "dogs", tons of high quality backlinks, and I want my money site to rank for a completely unrelated keyword, say "cats". The redirect would obviously make a difference with the keyword "dogs", but would it help the keyword I want - "cats"?
Interesting one.
Technically it should help some, although I wouldn't know how much.
I believe that as a domain is ranked higher for any keyword it tends to be easier to rank for the next keyword. The key thing here I guess is by how much. If you were #1 for dogs and not in top 100 for cats, I doubt it would get you any real traffic for the term cats.
Have you got a specific domain in mind? If so and you do go for it please do share the results.
Technically it should help some, although I wouldn't know how much.
I believe that as a domain is ranked higher for any keyword it tends to be easier to rank for the next keyword. The key thing here I guess is by how much. If you were #1 for dogs and not in top 100 for cats, I doubt it would get you any real traffic for the term cats.
Have you got a specific domain in mind? If so and you do go for it please do share the results.
citylightz
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- Oct 13, 2010
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So what about buying a relevant and high PR expiring domain from godaddy's auction and doing a 301 from it to an existing domain/site. Will an expired or expiring domain pass on all or most of the pr to your existing domain, or does it just pass on link juice or nothing at all?
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That's pretty much the same question two posts up. Sounds to me like you're both looking for easy shortcuts to ranking. I'd say stop trying to be lazy and looking for easy solutions because you'll not find them.
My guess is that a high ranking domain you purchase and 301 to your lower ranked domain will pass on its link power to your site, giving it a boost, but only temporarily, as G evaluates the relevancy of the links and eventually figures out that they don't hold much value for your target site. So maybe the long term result will be a slight increase in the number of low quality links.
Another factor may be the extent to which you can determine what page URLs the 301'd domain had links for. If you explicitly create the same URLs so you can have a page on your target site for every link that the old site had, I would imagine that could help your effort.
Finally, if you buy a site in the same niche, then I'd guess your chances of retaining a higher boost are much greater.
Or do a conditional rewrite which sends all pages from the old site to the homepage of the new one.
I disagree with your point that any gain would be temporary, but certainly any gain would be proprtional to the previous domains ranking and therefore unleess you were picking up loads of aged bargains with loads of links it wouldn't make a lot of difference in the grand scheme of things.
I wonder how it would effect my situation.
I have bigmoneysite.com and hundreds of pages of content.
I have about 50 EMDs set up.
Roughly 1/3 - 1/2 of them are ranked #1 for their keyword.
I wonder if I 301'd all those EMDs to my money site if I would be ranking #1 for all those keywords still. And I wonder if that would be a redflag for google?
I have bigmoneysite.com and hundreds of pages of content.
I have about 50 EMDs set up.
Roughly 1/3 - 1/2 of them are ranked #1 for their keyword.
I wonder if I 301'd all those EMDs to my money site if I would be ranking #1 for all those keywords still. And I wonder if that would be a redflag for google?
harrymctavish
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- Jul 21, 2011
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I have used 301s in the past to great effect. I recently just 301d a site and within a week the new site was ranking higher that the old site. The link juice does pass onto the new site and it works a treat.
I said it would be temporary (at best) if there was no relevancy. What are you disagreeing with exactly? That there will be any boost at all (because of lack of relevancy) or that it would be temporary?
If the latter, why do you think an unrelated site would benefit long term from 301'd links with no relevancy? Perhaps you're postulating that ANY link gives you at least a little juice, even if it's irrelevant. I would buy that, but would only add that I wouldn't go out of my way or spend much money to get a bunch of links that are not related to my site's niche, since they may not be any better than a blast of comment spam. Yeah? If not, please explain.
This, if you rank a site for KW # 1,2 and 3 then you'll find that KW #4 has climbed, so yes I believe that even irrelevant links add juice, although like you I wouldn't spend much money (or time).
In summary, it was the temporary bit I disagree with
