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Redirect Affects Rankings?

by amenwolf
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This might be a myth?

But I'm afraid of it.

Was kinda wondering, if it does happens....

Does it affect the site that's redirecting to..
or
Does it affect the site that's receiving the redirecting from..


Thanks for the reply.
#affects #rankings #redirect
  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    This is a bit speculative on my part, if your typically using 301 permanent redirects to re-route links to the old site address on to the new site, I believe the ranking would migrate to the new site, where the users end up, in such cases it's a good idea to contact the linking sites with a request to update the links.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheFreebieGuy
    I recently decided to switch from one domain to a new one that I purchased. So I redirected the old domain to the new. Before the redirect, I had a pagerank of 3 and my site ranked very well.

    When I started redirecting to the new domain, my old domain basically fell off the face of the Google planet, and my Pagerank went down to 0. Evidently, I made the switch around the time when Google was updating Pagerank.

    However, I noticed that my new domain started ranking quickly. It's as if all of the authority was transfered to the new domain, which is what I wanted to happen.

    Once my new domain was well-established, I removed the redirect and started using the old domain for something else. Once I did that, the old domain started ranking well again for the new terms I was targeting.

    So, this is not something that I've tested extensively, but it does suggest that redirects do influence rankings. Now, note that I was redirecting the entire domain, and not a single url, so that might also play a factor.

    Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author mad.hat
    Originally Posted by amenwolf View Post

    This might be a myth?

    But I'm afraid of it.

    Was kinda wondering, if it does happens....

    Does it affect the site that's redirecting to..
    or
    Does it affect the site that's receiving the redirecting from..


    Thanks for the reply.
    It can be both depending on how exactly you are redirecting and what exactly you are redirecting.
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  • Profile picture of the author addyj672
    I use 301 redirect for get traffic of both url with WWW and without WWW It help us getting good ranking....
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