Question About Redirecting Site

Hi, any experts having experience in redirecting sites to sites, need your value answer to the below.
I got a site which rank #1 right now. Would like to redirect it to another local site of mine. Question is
1. what will happen to the redirected site if I made this happen.
2. how will google see it now, will they still crawl the redirected site?
3. is it ok to keep on SEOing the redirected site and continue to build articles on it?
4. Lastly, will there be any different in ranking for this way?
Thanks

If you do a 301 redirect, the "link juice" and other SEO benefits of the original site will flow (more or less) to the new target site. Here's a great article on the various uses of 301 redirects: http://authoritywebsiteincome.com/1-seo-tactic-of-3-successful-case-studies-expired-domains/

301 redirect will does all the job + you will get all SEO benefits on this one.

as matt once said, a 301 will pass same juice as a link

Having said that, is it wise to keep on maintaining the #1 position for my redirected site? or once 301, the ranking will drop?

VinceC said:

1. what will happen to the redirected site if I made this happen.
2. how will google see it now, will they still crawl the redirected site?
3. is it ok to keep on SEOing the redirected site and continue to build articles on it?
4. Lastly, will there be any different in ranking for this way?

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1. The old site will disappear from Google index and the new one will replace it. It may take some time so at first you can see both domains indexed which can result in changing rankings but finally you should have your old rankings back. But... it's important to redirect all pages to new addresses, instead of redirecting everything to the home page.
2. Yes, it will. So if you decide to delete redirection, Google will be able to notice it.
3. You can still get backlinks to it but adding new content won't help you in my opinion.
4. There shouldn't be any differences but you need to do it properly.