I wanted to purchase a new domain for my site, but my site ranks pretty high for a number of key phrases (I lost count at 10 phrases). It is a PR4 as well. If I use a 301 redirect, will my site lose PR value and will it still rank as high?
it will lose the external, toolbar PR temporarily. the internal PR will never be "lost" and you should lose no traffic. unless of course you're moving your site from an old domain to a new one-- it could put your site into the sandbox.
I currently have domain1.com (PR4 ranks very high for a few phrases) I want to register a new domain called domain2.com can I 301 redirect domain1.com to domain2.com and have BOTH domain1.com AND domain2.com and the normal rankings and PR? Well maybe not both, but if domain1 doesn't keep the rankings, hopefully it will tranfser its rankings PR to domain2. Will that work?
why do you care about the PR if the rankings don't come with it? here's how it breaks down: if domain1.com is old enough, then transferring it to domain2.com via a 301 will cause you to lose traffic. if domain1.com isn't old enough, then it won't make a difference and the traffic will be the same.
Hi, Actually, I think you *will* lose PR if you 301 redirect that domain. A better idea would be to 301 redirect your new domain (domain2.com) to domain1.com. That way, you shouldn't lose any PR. ...although I'm not 100% sure about that. But it should be better than using a 301 on your original site. In my opinion, doing a 301 on your high PR site is basically like throwing away all of the work you did on it and starting from scratch on the new domain. I highly recommend that you leave your high PR site intact -- no redirects. Keep in mind that I'm not an SEO expert, but I do remember hearing that 301'ing a high PR page is a bad idea. I hope this helps, Michael