Hi guys, I'm new here so I'm sorry if I posted this on the wrong thread... anyways, I got a question about Redirects and Pagerank. here's the Scenario: I have a blog, http://www.elie-palima.com and I was irritated with it's "hypen (-)" cause whenever I ask some friends to go visit my website, I was like "hey, visit my website! at www.elie (hypen) palima Dot com" obviously, I had a hard time telling them about the "hypen".. so what I did was a "fix" to the problem by buying a new domain for my website which is (www.eliepalima.com) this time, no more "dash / hypen" (-) what I did was I added a 301 redirect which will bring visitors to elie-palima.com (with a hypen) whenever they type in the one without the hypen.. so whenever they type in "www.eliepalima.com" it will automatically redirect them to "www.elie-palima.com" My question here is, if someone Links to "www.eliepalima.com" (the redirect) will that count as a link to "http://www.elie-palima.com"??? I mean, will it affect my PR or my link count??? will google rank the domains seperately???
Yes, absolutely -- you have done just the right thing. Under a 301 redirect, all the link juice and PR will transfer to your main domain and consolidate just fine.
Yes, it will. Google is not case insensitive for the capitalization but the other characters. "www.eliepalima.com" and "www.elie-palima.com" are different to google.
No. Google will not rank your domains separately, especially since there will not be any content on the domain that redirects to your primary domain. You should be fine. Also, while taking a look at the 301 redirect it would be a good idea to confirm that your Canonicalization is correct for both domains. You can find out more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/ Hope this helps, Neil