Does Redirection help to improve SEO ???

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by DewShare, Apr 28, 2009.

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    Hi

    I have 1 year old domain with 4500 contents and PR2. but not traffic from any search engine. only 100-200 per day. I am worried about it. A fellow advice me to redirect my existing site. to a new domain. So every thing including page rank will be shifted to new domain and Google will give high ranking to the web sites. Is this happened in reality.

    Please give me some tips and share your experience

    Thanks
     
    DewShare, Apr 28, 2009 IP
  2. GMBRDILOS

    GMBRDILOS Well-Known Member

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    use 301 redirection, from the point of SEO 301 redirection is the best.i may say that google allows only 301 redirection. :)
     
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  3. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    Redirecting your 4500 pages/URLs to a new domain is not likely going to fix your problem with traffic. Whatever problems you have with the current site, you are likely to duplicate with any new domain you setup. My guess is that your site is poorly optimized and more importantly you have a weak backlink profile based on the fact that it is only a PR2 site.

    You can have 1,000,000 pages on your site and not get traffic if those pages are poorly optimized and/or targeting the wrong keywords and/or has no good backlinks from relevant sites with link text that is targeting the same keywords that are found in the <title>, <h1>, <h2> elements and the content of the page.

    Of course, we can't really help you without your site's URL. If you'd like some constructive suggestions, leave us your URL.
     
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    Lizziedoll Peon

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    Yes if you have a duplicate homepage, ie. /index.hyml, a 301 redirect will mean your homepage PR is not split over 2 URLs, in effect. This means any link juice is concentrated on your root domain and this can help your rankings.
     
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  5. DewShare

    DewShare Well-Known Member

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    thanks "Canonical" My url is bravedownloads.com. I want your more advice to do some thing concrete
     
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    The OP is not asking if you can use 301 redirects to fix canonical issues. Did you read:

    Someone told him to redirect his site to a new domain to improve rankings. Doing so will NOT help. I do agree that using 301 redirects to fix canonical issues (which means they likely have split page rank and duplicate content as well) could help rankings...

    But just redirecting to a new domain will do nothing.
     
    Canonical, Apr 28, 2009 IP