Hypothetical page moving question

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dieselcatalog, Jun 2, 2009.

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    What would happen if I moved all of the content from my site, husky-floor-liners.com and moved it to an older domain name in a sub directory like, truckimprovement.com/husky-floor-liners/? (old domain name and PR of 2)

    If I did a 301 redirect, would google transfer all of the link building I have done on husky-floor-liners.com to the new url?

    Just curious. Its something I've thought about doing because right now one thing that is hurting me in the SE's is the age factor. Husky-floor-liners.com is still under a year old, so it keeps bouncing in and out of Google. Does fairly well in the other SE's though.
     
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  2. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    Personally, I would leave it. Domain age is not THAT big of a factor. If the domain is approaching 6 months of age, it is likely going to completely be a non-issue very soon.

    But if you still want to move those pages, yes... a 301 redirect should pass the PR and credit for inbound links to the new URLs on truckimprovement.com.
     
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  3. dieselcatalog

    dieselcatalog Peon

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    Thanks! I think I've come to the same conclusion. I will probably leave it.

    While we are on the subject though, what if I did move it and do a 301 redirect to a page that already had a PR of 2. Would the page that I moved with a PR of 2 be added to the new page with a PR of 2 to make a page of PR 4?

    Thanks,

    Andy
     
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    I'm not sure about the math of pr 2 coming to pr 4 but I think if you do a redirect and move the pages you should see some positive numbers on your pr; by how much, I'm not sure.
     
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    PR2 + Redirected (PR2) != PR4

    PR is a logarithmic scale... So PR2+PR2 might = PR2 or PR3 but not likely a PR4. But again, I try not to worry too much about PR. It has little influence on how your page ranks for a particular keyword phrase. I would concentrate more on what link text is used to link to your pages.
     
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    Why do you care about what PR it attains?
     
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    Canonical hit the nail on the head...when you start redirecting domains something usually always gets lost in the translation..upon redirecting one of my domains I lost some rankings but also gained some rankings in other areas. It's just a weird beast that is best left avoided if at all possible. What's probably holding your domain back at this point is Onpage and Offpage seo; make a checklist and check it twice, Santa style :) only less fun but the presents will be your traffic/PR. Best of luck.
     
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