Hi, I just bought a domain, and am planning to start a blog. But what I need is http://www.xxxxx.com should point to http://www.xxxx.com Should I do this with 301 redirect, if yes, then in that case, will Google treat both URLs differently, and which one should I get the backlinks for Thanks a tonne for your help.
Greetings , You can use 301 Redirect. Google will consider backlinks of actual domain where you are redirecting first domain . So get backlinks for the domain where traffic will get redirected through 301 .
If you use a 301 and say site A points to site B (temp) and then a month later you remove that 301 redirect - Google will assume you want Site A to be the new site REPLACING site B, which will move PR, etc now to site A This method was used to steal PR from many sites, I used it when taking over a site, but wanting a new URL associated with it and it worked - just in case someone thinks I am talking trash.
No..what I want to know, that should I get backlinks for http://www.xxxxxx.com or http://www.xxxx.com/blog ? And if one has the pr, will it go on the other?
Site A being the original site www.dorkshosting.com/username/dumbestever Site B being nice new www.coolname .com Site A is PR3 with many links, Site B has none. I pointed Site B using 301 to Site A for about 1 month. I then removed that redirect. Site B now has PR3 and many search listing pointing to it that use to point to site A. Site A now has no PR and no google listings I am not sure if that helps answer your question, if not Use www.sitea.com(old) and www.siteb.com(new) to simplify your question.
get all your links changed.. at least the ones you can. how long will you be able to maintain the redirect?? not forever likely. the links Hopefully could be forever.. get them changed or once you loose the redirect you loose the link. and yes, with a proper 301, you will keep your PR. there is an article explaining the 301 and changing names. there are a couple really good links in the article as well that are well worth reading. Change domain name or google tamingthebeast.net and 301 redirect hope it helps
See, the thing is I recently purchased a site. http://www.mysite.com Now, I want to make it a blog, so, I put it in a folder http://www.mysite.com/blog/ Now, I am redirecting (301) http://www.mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com/blog/ So, when I purchase links from other sites, do I use http://www.mysite.com for the backlinks or http://www.mysite.com/blog/ ? Thanks for your help.
Well, if it is part of the same site don't use a 301 is my opinion. But YES get links pointing to the /blog section. Get links with anchor text that matches the page it is pointing to. Get some pointing to other pages if they have different themes, etc..
ok..thanks for the help, one more question.. What should I use to redirect homepage to blog folder, if not a 301, I am wanting that mysite.com should go to mysite.com/blog Thanks once again.
Not sure. I would try to use the base URL and let people click or something. But 301 is a temporary redirect that can cause issues with google/PR etc..
why set a redirect? 301 by the way is Permanent and the proper way to maintain PR. 307 is temporary. for other codes read why not just use the root of your domain then for the blog. or map yoursite.com/blog to the root? or better yet map /blog to blog.yoursite.com and then point links to that and set that as your root?
I can't believe I just did that along the whole thread! Now I never used a 307, what was it then? I could have sworn all the thread about redirects we had about 1 year ago was about the 301.