About to setup up a 301 re-direct from fancybrandname.com TO myhardselldomain.com Anything I should know beforehand? Could Google "punish" me for this down the line?
>> moriswatson >> why you would like to do that...... myfancybrandname.com will be used in print ads... and i dont want to remind potential customers what keywords to use, as my competitors sites will come up if I uses the second domain name
A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect so as long as you are aware of that then you will not be penalized down the line. The only way the other site would be penalized is if you have a ton of links pointing to fancy and then you shut down fancy. All of those links would no longer pass PR to myh
I think you must know that you need to own both domains to be able to arrange that redirection. It might be also wise to try to develop both domains as competitors. It works for some poeple.
How do I setup both domains as competitors? Will there be need to host a holding page with logo on fancybrandname.com site or will I just leave it blank?
What I meant was starting two different and unrelated websites, and trying to position both each to a sector of public. e.g. Dating sites: Usually those companies buy a lot of domains, develop a lot of websites, but they still rake in all the dough because they own them all. Go it?
Not true. The whole point of a 301 is that they will pass PR. The PR may be diminished/damped however, but not by much. It helps a lot to redirect page to page - not have all the old pages redirecting just to the new homepage.
a 301 redirect is classified by search engines as a permanent redirect of the page. Meaning the page has permanently moved to the new redirected location. How is that not true?
@jacobean usually hosting packages include a way to configure alias domains. In DirectAdmin, it's called "site redirection", for instance.
You said "The only way the other site would be penalized is if you have a ton of links pointing to fancy and then you shut down fancy. All of those links would no longer pass PR to myh" That's not true. The redirect would still work, the PR would still be passed
How would the redirect work when the website & domain are no longer working? Google would hit the link pointing to the fancy site and it would go to a domain not found error.