Will Google penalize me if i redirect an URL well positioned to another?

Thank you for your answers.

 

No, why should they?

Many site owners create a new site, stop updating the old one and redirect pages on the old site to the new site.

You don't have devious intentions, do you...?

 

it doesn't depend on Google, instead, it depends on what you did. meet the norms or had a cheat.

 

No, Google will not penalize if you don't redirect to any spammy/adult sites.

 

Shoud not be, as soon as it looks not suspicious

 

You have to do a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new domain. 301 redirects leak PR these days, so you will lose PageRank.

 

Google tells you to 301 redirect web pages when old URLs move to a new location so why would they penalize you? They only penalize URLs when webmasters implement sneaky redirects for cloaking as an example... like if you are showing the crawlers one page, but redirecting non-crawler page requests to totally different than what you're showing the crawlers when they request that same page.

And while PR does get leaked by 301 redirects... It's some small amount like 10-15%. It depends on the value of the Damping factor for Google's current PR formula.

 

Hi,

Google would not penalize your old or new domain if only it is a 301 redirection.

all the best,

 

If you done 301 then I do not think any problem would appear. However, the redirect would caused a website ranking fluctuated for a period of time, even 301 is no exception in this case. It could take from 2 weeks to 2 months depends on various factors I do not know actually, but saying this based on my own experiences.

 

Thank you very much for your anwers.