Hi foolks, One of my websites has been optimized for search engines pretty well. At specific keywords are ranking in the top 5 positions. Now I'm wondering if a redirect will cause a drop in rankings? For example I have sitex.com which is ranked perfect in the serps for a specific keyword. But I want to redirect that website when a visitor visits the page to another page. You know when someone visit your page and sees "you will be redirected in 3 seconds to anothersite.com". Will this adding redirect screw my rankings?
You should use a 301 redirect to properly redirect web pages. This tells search engines that this page has permantantly been moved to this one and it will transfer over link, pagerank and serp value. However, you may see a small drop in search results for a short period of time.
Hi ssandecki, I am not sure if I have explained my issue well. Basically I don't need it changed permanently. It should just redirect at every visitor visit from organic search in G. The reason is as following: I have a site about fishing (carp fishing) which is ranked in top 5 positions on specific keywords in G serps. This SEO has been done for about 1 year by someone so there is no way possible in a short term to get my friend's site on the same spot in just a small timeline. My friend has a much better site with more pictures etc. So I want to redirect my carp fishing site to his site so his site can still be visit a lot by traffic from my site. But this doesn't mean it should be permanently since my site still should be appear in serps.
Place a link visitors have to click manually, that can be considered borderline blackhat and result in a penalty in my opinion.
So basically my story in the previous post can be seen as blackhat? And what about popups, does that has influence as well on rankings in serps? Thank you
I really would just go with another static URL on the web page, this will also pass over link value to the web page itself.