Domain Forwarding & SEO Question

by Joel

Posted: 14 years ago 5 replies

Any insights .
a. Domain name 'A' is main website
b. Domain name 'B' forwards to domain 'A'
c. I would rather have traffic go to 'B' & be forwarded to 'A' ('A' is a large co. website that I do not own, 'B' is my domain name)

From an SEO & linking standpoint, is there a problem in using articles & press releases with 'B' as the link?

Thanks!

#domain #forwarding #question #seo

noble 14 years ago

Forwards/redirects are harder to rank as there is little/no content but you can rank them.
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raviv 14 years ago

Hi Joel,
I am not sure if I understood your question well enough. Please correct me if I am wrong. I may be a bit technical here in my explanation. I don't intend to be confusing.

In your case, I am not sure if you are doing a sitewide redirect where all pages on your site B are redirected to Site A.

As per what you have written, your own site B redirects to site A which you do not own. From an SEO perspective, there are two types of redirects, 301 and 302.

All major search engines do not encourage 302 redirects which are temporary. It has got no value in passing link juice or domain authority.

The useful type of redirect is the 301 which is a permanent redirect. This passes the link juice and domain authority of your site B to site A.

So it is site A that gains in the end if it is a 301 redirect. If I were to read your article and click on the link to your site B, it will automatically redirect me to Site A. Most readers will not even see your site as they end up landing on site A.

I am not sure what your position is vis-a-vis your arrangement with site A. But Site A gains from all the hard work done on Site B (read your hard work) as far as search engines go.

From the user's perspective, they are going to end up in Site A and not know that your site even exists.

I am not sure how either of the circumstances mentioned above is going to help you as you are doig Site A a huge favour all the way.

Cheers
Raviv
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- BillyPilgrim 14 years ago
  
  So I have a affiliate blog on page one and I want it to redirect to the vendor's sales page.
  A. Is this a 301 redirect?
  B. Will further SEO be fruitless? IOW does this mean I risk falling in rank.
  
  If B. is true is there an better alternative (my copywriting isn't converting).
  
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  raviv 14 years ago
  
  Hey Billy,
  Assuming you are stating that you have an affiliate blog on Page one of the search rankings, you would just have a normal link to your merchant's page without having any kind of redirect on it. I dont understand the B part of your question assuming I have figured out what you are saying in A.
  
  Normally, 301 redirects can be very useful in following circumstances:
  1) A non www version of your site to www version of your site
  2) If you have an old mature website and you want to build a totally new site, you do not want to waste the domain authority and PR on your old site. You will create a new site with lot of content pages and you can 301 redirect the pages on old site to pages on your new site. This is done using .htaccess file on a Linux server and isapidll on an IIS server (Microsoft)
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  Raviv
  
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