I have a site that is 2 years old and ranking fairly well in Google. I have an 2older sites that are 4 years old and was used for this same industry and city but has been parked but is indexed by G with the homepage. I want to revive the older domain and 301 the 2 yr old domain along with the other 4 yr old domain and move all its content over to this older domain. How should I go about this and structure the 301. The 2 yr old domain in Google has 14k pages indexed. Both the older domains have BLs still indexed in Yahoo but not G. Will this help increase my rankings by doing this since these other domains are older and still show BLs in Yahoo. After checking some of the links still in Y I have found that G is still caching those pages these links are on. I hope this made sense. Thanks for the help.
Are you running IIS or Apache? Probably .htaccess is the answer, and it might be as little as two lines, depending on how your sites are structured. If you post the URLs and if you have Apache, I can share my .htaccess with you, which does essentially the same as what you're describing.
Yes this site runs Apache. I dont want to post the urls here cause I know some of my competitors are on this forum hense me not using a sig The problem I see with the htaccess is that by adding that many 301s it will slow the site down tremendously. Another issue related to maybe keeping the smae urls is that the 2 yr old site is in jsp where the new one will not be and be controled by a Joomla CMS.
Another question it doesnt look like I can 301 each page of the 2 yr old site it has 14k+ pages indexed in G. This site uses JSP and the new site is html. So my question is will doing a global 301 to just the new domain hurt or help. Could there be a better way to do this?
if you use 301 redirect , everythink will moved to the new domain. you will not loose anythink. making a google search with 301 redirect will give you a start point
I have done this but everything talks about page to page 301ing. I am trying to find out about a global 301. I am trying to find out whether 301ing 14k+ pages to the homepage of a new domain will cause me to lose my current rankings for those pages that are indexed or will the new site pick up where the old one left off? The site that will receive the 301 will have the content added to it from the site I am 301ing but the urls will be different.