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SEO question about building a new site and redirecting the old one?

by Jakehyten
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I have a site that ranks on page two of google for a pretty decent keyword. I have found a better keyword that will convert better that i want to get my site to start ranking for.

Also after studying traffic secrets 2 my site has MANY mistakes in it and also in the back links ive built to it.

Would this be ok?

I am going to build a whole new site and have the keywords that i NOW want to rank for. It is closely related to the old keywords also so i will mix some older keywords in also.

I will republish this site on a different keyword optimized domain. I will take the old domain that has page rank and a 600k alexa ranking and 301 redirect it at godaddy.

I dont want to publish both sites because of duplicate content.

Will this be ok and if i redirect it the old domain will still hold in google?

hopefully im explaining this right. Thanks!
#building #question #redirecting #seo #site
  • Profile picture of the author Derek Pankaew
    Unless there's a ton of content, I'd just redo the content all together.

    As far as I know, you can't 301 redirect and have it "count" as the same website.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
      Originally Posted by Derek Pankaew View Post

      Unless there's a ton of content, I'd just redo the content all together.

      As far as I know, you can't 301 redirect and have it "count" as the same website.
      Do you mean redo the content on the old domain? And just change things around and the traffic that goes there try to get them to click through to the new domain?

      I basically only have about 4 pages. The main page thats a sales page, a faq and a "how this works" section.

      So once i republish under a different domain and slight different keywords the old site that is ranked on second page of google and has page rank of 1 will vanish?
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  • Profile picture of the author digitalproductreporter
    i think google says a 301 permanent will forward all pagerank and rankings

    however from experience, I moved larger site about 3 months ago with a 301 redirect and lost most of my google traffic

    i think it's luck of the draw
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