Hi there, I have this popular site of a specific niche. Since, the website is too narrow in its niche, I would like to redirect the main domain to another domain but to a folder. Something like this: www.mainsite.com redirected to www.newsite.com/mainsite-topic/ What are the SEO consecuences of doing this? Does the mainsite.com "juice" is passed to www.newsite.com/mainsite-topic/? Regards.
That's how Google has said it works, if done correctly at least. I've been looking for how to do it correctly for quite some time not necessarily trusting the different things I've seen thus far.
I should try then, since mainsite.com is very popular on its niche, most of the traffic comes from search engines. I do want it to lose popularity by doing the redirection.
Ya, it works because Google offers 301 redirection from one domain to another domain name, 301 redirection is permanent redirection so we can redirection all credit of domain name to particular domain name.
Yes, I believe this is correct. It should pass some juice since the 301 redirect is a permanent. Also, I don't think you will see huge SEO losses from this or anything..
I am concerned because I will pass a whole domain to a folder on another domain. So lets say mainsite have a pagerank of 5 and newsite is brand new so I redirect whole mainsite to newsite/mainsite-topic/. Does newsite/mainsite-topic will receive the juice? All the pagerank?
There is a good post on 301 redirection with a case study here: http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/301-redirect-test-how-much-link-juice-are-you-losing/2010/04/09/