Hello all, I have a question, I have a page ( say: domain.com/abc.aspx ) that has a PR-1 and some good number of inbound links. I get few hundreds of traffic directly on this page from google and yahoo (more from yahoo) , now I want to transfer this content to a subdomain say abc.domain.com , how do i do that. Actually I want to install wordpress on that subdomain and add all the content on wordpress? If I use 301 redirect to redirect this page to the subdomain, will google give my PR to that subdomain? Will yahoo be able to recognize the change, and than will it give me the same traffic? I am so confused, as this thing 301 redirect is not very clear to me. Please any help and comments are welcome, Thanks.
PR "may" transfer. Search engines (google) will pick up on the change - google takes about 7-10 days, though I've heard as long as 3 weeks. Yahoo "may" pick it up... If you're getting traffic directly to the page, why move it? Are you not happy with the traffic? You may be better served using this page to serve as a springboard to your subdomain.
If you 301 redirect then YES the PR will transfer. A 301 redirect from Source URL to Target URL tells the search engines to give Target URL credit for all inbound links to the Source URL (which means the PR is passed AND credit for the link text is passed). But you need to do this on a URL by URL basis. 301 redirect each old URL to the new URL whose content most closely resembles the content found at the old URL. This way the link text for the inbound links to the old URL will be applicable to the new URL and have the best chance of helping the new URL rank. Google will drop the old URL from its indexes and replace them with the new URL. NOTE: That there no set 7-10 day window for this to happen. How long it takes for the new URLs to get full credit for the links to the old URL is totally dependent on which sites link to your old URL and how often those sites are crawled. You have to wait on Google to recrawl every inbound link to the old URL, discover the 301 redirect for that particular inbound link, and transfer credit for that inbound link to the new URL. So if every site that links to you gets crawled monthly then it will take about a month before your rankings return to normal. In reality most sites' inbound links have a variety of crawl frequencies, so you will get credit for some of the old links sooner, yet you'll have to wait weeks typically to get credit for all of them.
Actually on that page I dont have options to maintain my content easily, so i want to transfer that content to wordpress (subdomain) so that I can easily maintain my content there.
Use link rel="canonical" Alternative solution fo 301 Redirects url: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html More easier and no worries if you used rel="canonical"