redirecting pages between domains. Can anything bad happen?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by idolw, Jan 22, 2006.

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    I have two websites about the same topic but two different areas. Site one was started a year before the second one.
    When my first site gained strong position in google I decided to add some pages about stuff from my second website, which was still buried in the sand. It was purely because of my greed.
    Google eagerly ranked my pages high and then released Site2 from the sandbox, so I did not need the pages on Site1. I stopped all work on Site1 pages and worked on the Site2.
    I even put "Thanks for coming, but we do not do this anymore" text on Site1's pages as I did not want to delete these pages from the server.
    However, now Google ranks these pages higher than the great ones belonging to Site2, which I do not like.
    My question is: if I 301 redirected certain pages to another site, can it do any bad to any of my sites?
    I already know it may happen that nothing good will be done.
    But is there a risk of anything bad?
     
    idolw, Jan 22, 2006 IP