Say I am the owner of two different websites web1.com and web2.com with the alexa ranks 100k and 10k respectively. Now is there any way to transfer or improve web1 's rank using web2 's traffic? of course I can redirect web2 to point to web1 but that is not what I want as I really want to keep the contents of both websites, one way I was thinking of is to move web2 to be a subdomain of web1 something like web2.com --> sub.web1.com this way I still have both websites valid but the only thing I am not sure about it, is the traffic of a subdomain counts toward the main domain? I asked this question before but have not got a clear answer yet... thanks for your help
The search engines treat subdomains as separate websites. So by moving one website into a subdomain of the other, you would not get any benefit. Really the only way to transfer the rankings is to either redirect or actually change all backlinks to point to the other site. Why would you want to transfer rankings anyway? Why don't you just improve the well ranking website so that it converts better?
Vansterdam is completely right! My thought is this, you could forward web2.com to web1.com/web2 and then you are maintaining content and forwarding link value to the new website - that will only work if your websites structure makes sense having two different main areas to it.
As I know, in this case you will success to increase your Alexa Ranking since they work on subdomain level.
personally i do not know, however i'm sure if this could happen many people would have taken advantage of this and would actually have tried to do this before hand. thus, you should find a lot of responses if this was the case
for me this is getting a bit confusing, I have asked this in other threads and forums but seems people think differently and there is no agreement whether hits on a subdomain will affect alexa toward the main domain so I looked at alexa documentation, here is what they saying Alexa’s traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. domain.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. www.domain.com/subpage.html) or subdomains (e.g. subdomain.domain.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users. again for me this paragraph is not really clear and does not answer the question we have