I recently just started working with a SEO Company and for my niche, I was advised to seek out and buy an aged domain (from godaddy) to give me an immediate advantage before building any link profile. I don't have a problem with that, but if I went ahead and bought an aged domain could I transfer a new domain to it without losing it's PR, backklinks and linkjuice? The new domain I had now before I contacted the SEO Company was apart of my company's branding, I'd just hate to have to lose that entirely.
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Yes. Just do an .htaccess 301 redirect to your new domain. It'll pass over most of the link juice automatically.
Just create a file in the root of the old domain named ".htaccess" (the dot is important) with the following line inside:
Redirect 301 / hxxp://yournewdomain.com
Replace the xx to tt to make it http
Just create a file in the root of the old domain named ".htaccess" (the dot is important) with the following line inside:
Redirect 301 / hxxp://yournewdomain.com
Replace the xx to tt to make it http
martinmarsch
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- Jan 14, 2013
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yes...
Ok, say I am about to buy an aged PR4 domain ... and my niche is music ... specifically selling instrumentals ...
would I need to find a aged domain on auction that's atleast halfway relevant to music or instrumentals or would any domain with good PR do? I read in the past about PR suddenly vanishing when buying an aged domain is that something to worry about with GoDaddy's auctions? I'm still researching it.
would I need to find a aged domain on auction that's atleast halfway relevant to music or instrumentals or would any domain with good PR do? I read in the past about PR suddenly vanishing when buying an aged domain is that something to worry about with GoDaddy's auctions? I'm still researching it.
LBrown
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- Mar 22, 2011
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Why isn't this something the SEO company is helping you with? Seems like sketchy advice for you when you're just getting started with SEO.
Relevance is very important if you're redirecting. If you get one totally irrelevant you're going to be having a number of non-relevant links pointing at you. Links help Google understand what your site is about. If there's a rush of new non-relevant links, you better believe Google's going to be confused as to how to rank you and for what terms.
Relevance is very important if you're redirecting. If you get one totally irrelevant you're going to be having a number of non-relevant links pointing at you. Links help Google understand what your site is about. If there's a rush of new non-relevant links, you better believe Google's going to be confused as to how to rank you and for what terms.