Ok so if DomainB is 301 redirected via htaccess to DomainA - Will building new links to DomainB affect DomainA ? - Will getting links to BOTH these domain on the same site increase the page rank of DomainA more?
301's pass on PageRank, so the answer to your first question is yes. The answer to your second question is No, domainB is canonical so the links will be treated as just one link to domainB.
#1, yes. Even after a 301 redirect, further link building to that domain further strengthens the site you 301 redirected to. #2, it depends. A web page can only "vote" for another web page only once. So lets say half of the pages you get links from point to domaina ... the other half of pages to domainb, then YES ... domainA would end up with twice the links. But, if domain A gets, say 100 links on 100 pages ... and domain B gets 100 links on the exact same pages that domain A got its links from, then no it would not count as double links. Only if domainA got 100 links from a certain set of pages, and domainB got 100 links from a completely different set of pages, would it count as double links to domainA.
You have to be careful about 301'ing a domain to another domain if the purpose is just to increase pagerank. If you have an auto related site and purchase another domain which you think is better, by all means redirect the old to the new using a 301. Buying domains and then pointing them to your current domain, especially if they were not in a related niche, is asking for trouble. Google is a lot more wise to people doing this for purposes of just increasing page rank. There is absolutely no reason to continue to build links to both domains, only build links to your main domain.
Its fine. Links are not counted on the basis of a domian but they are counted on the basis of a page. So a link from page A of domain X and a link from page B of domain X(same domain) will count as two links.
How about if i get a new domain and rediect it to say: DomainA.com/something, will that count as a deep link?
Sorry but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Do you realize that a blank page with no words on it can be PR6? Have you ever even TRIED to 301 pagerank from one place to another? You can 301 anything to anywhere. 301ing pagerank around has absolutely nothing ... repeat ... nothing to do with the content of the page that is being 301'ed. The new page you 301 to might not get one bit of authority if the original page was about scuba divers and the new page is about galaxies ... but it will get every little drop of pagerank. And before anyone starts shooting off that the new pagerank on that page is worthless, oh really? You've actually TRIED to 301 a high PR domain to a new page and have concluded through many tests that it's worthless? You CAN 301 PR from one domain to another. You CAN 301 pagerank from a root domain to another deep link in a different domain. It absolutely works. The new page will rank for the terms on it (even if the terms are completely unrelated) a WHOLE lot easier than if there were no pagerank being 301'ed to it. If you think otherwise, its because you never actually tried it, period.
You are an idiot with no comprehension. The OP asked if he got a NEW domain and did a 301 redirect, would it count as a deep link. A new domain had no authority and isn't going to count as a backlink. Next think you'll post is how link exchanges are the best way to get backlinks. Yes, I tried plenty of 301 redirects - been doing it before you were born. It used to work great. Maybe you should read up on what Matt Cutts says about doing 301 redirects for the purpose of just passing PR. "301 to might not get one bit of authority if the original page was about scuba divers and the new page is about galaxies" Yeah, another stupid increase PR with no benefit idea. Brilliant. This coming from a phony SEO who thinks sitewide links increase proportionately in passing PR. Come back when you get a clue and actually know what you are talking about.
I'm with seocopycat on this one. Well put and clearly explained. (Though personally, I would dispute the authority part, I think relevancy is way overblown.)
2 websites, side by side, one is a brand new website, the other is a brand new website with an unrelated PR6 301'ed to it. Both websites have 10,000 pages. The brand new website that doesn't have any 301'ed pagerank ... will peter out at around 100 pages indexed ... maybe it'll shoot up to 500 or 1000 and then over time, as google decides the website is worthless (because it has no links) ... google starts de-indexing the content. The brand new site that has the PR6 301'ed to it, will get every ... single ... page ... indexed ... guaranteed (assuming it's not duplicate). If it is duplicate it will probably get more than half the pages indexed and may even de-index lower PR websites that were there with that content first. It will rank better in the SERPS. All that pagerank starts flowing through the site ... starting out as unrelated, but after it gets passed from the homepage to the subpages it becomes a whole lot more relevant ... the site does better and better and after about 6 months from what I can tell, my PR-transferred site ranks just as well as anyone else's high PR site that has their incoming links from relevant sources. The OP never said one thing about the original website being a new website, sorry it just isn't there, go reread it and spell it out where it's supposed to be "new" ... if it were "new" then why would he be worrying about transferring it's pagerank and/or incoming links. There happens to be very legitimate reasons for doing exactly what the OP wanted to do. You start out your website as a .net ... you build links to it by creating a wordpress theme with embedded links to your .net website (or one of many different methods to get continual incoming links to your site). You then obtain the .com and you would rather your website be the .com so you 301 redirect the .net to the .com. But there are hundreds of wordpress theme websites out there handing out your wordpress template that has links to the .net ... you will forever in the future continually get links to the .net ... but you also want to build links to your .com. What I just mentioned is 100% legitimate, 100% white-hat, 100% effective, 100% Matt Cutts approved method of accomplishing the effect of what the OP was wanting to know about. Regarding sitewide links increasing proportionately ... of course they don't. If the only incoming links you have are from sitewide links, it could look like an unnatural linking pattern and gain a penalty. Sitewide links are not proportional (see http://www.bluehatseo.com/open-questions-4-deminishing-values-on-outbound-links/ for an explaination of how sitewide links have diminishing values, but the sum of the sitewide links is still greater than one outbound link). Regarding the quip about doing 301's before I was born, lol. All you show yourself to be is someone who jumps into any thread about PR to belittle the whole concept of PR and anyone who says anything constructive about PR ... ok I get it, you don't like PR, and you especially don't like people who use "tricks" with PR like 301 redirect. Your point has been made. You're not alone, there are plenty of "PR is worthless" trolls out there invading every PR thread. If you honestly been doing 301 redirects since 1970, you should be more honest with the effect they have on a website instead of belittling both the act of 301ing as well as anyone who says they have a beneficial use.
So you need a PR6 301 redirect to get you other site pages indexed? lol. You do know that indexed != increase in SERPS. No wonder you were posting that all your SERPS dropped to 50th position. Yeah, just the "SEO" I would want to listen too. Your tag line could be "50th ranking guaranteed or 25% of your money back".
How does a 301 work within the same domain? Say you have all your links built to "irrelevant-domain-name.com". Is it worth it to 301 to "irrelevant-domain-name.com/keyword.htm" to capitalize on having the keyword in the URL or would you lose the juice from your existing links?
Good to know a troll can hit 5000+ posts around here. Fortunate for you, I consider you barely enough important to respond to and yet thoroughly unimportant enough to drudge through your prior posts to dig up more evidence of your evident seo skill. Keeping this thread on track, rather than hijack it like some ... the title of this thread is "will linking to a 301 directed domain push the rank of the original site" ... the answer is a resounding, unequivocal YES and to say otherwise is doing an injustice to everyone reading.
My my, look at you get personal at the guy just because you're losing the argument. Actually, pages indexed has a VERY STRONG correlation with performance in the serps. I thought everyone new that. No brainer.
Getting your site indexed doesn't mean you are going to start ranking well for competitive keywords. The OP didn't even ask about indexing, he asked about increasing PR. If you need to 301 a PR6 domain just to get your site indexed, then you have bigger problems to address. As I said, it may increase PR, but there can be a risk if you are doing it just to increase PR. If you want to listen to someone who posted on a thread that ALL his keywords dropped to position 50, then fine. You can both be happy with no traffic.