2 website migration - a suicide mission?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by Mike1010, Jul 26, 2014.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I'm trying to figure out how to migrate 2 websites into one and don't lose the SEO power of both of them.

    I have 2 websites:
    1. A forum (let's say forum.com)
    2. A Wordpress (WP) article website (let's say article.com)

    I don't know which one is stronger in terms of SEO since the WP website has a higher PR (by one point) than the forum website, but the forum is much more active and has daily new content (about 600-800 posts/day while the WP website has 1 article a month).

    These two websites have completely different domains. I feel like I'm losing SEO power with the separation, so I would like to move the WP website to the front of the forum. The main page of the forum would be the article website, and I would change the forum to be an internal route directory.

    In other words I would like o kill the domain article.com (with 301 redirects of course) and have only the forum.com.
    People who will enter forum.com, would get to article.com. The forum itself would be at forum.com/community or something like (a direct link would be provided from the main page).

    My question is if this is a smart move? would you do it differently?
     
    Mike1010, Jul 26, 2014 IP
  2. RAND0M1ZER

    RAND0M1ZER Active Member

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    600-800 new posts a day sounds like a very active forum. I would personally leave it as it is. Especially since you are having success with the current configuration and the domains are completely different like you said.
     
    RAND0M1ZER, Jul 31, 2014 IP