Moving Portion of Site to Different Domain
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It ranked great for the keywords like widgets, blue widgets, red widgets etc.
But then the business started selling beebops, zeezoos, and prossies. The business than moved to a new domain, greatstuff.com since it no longer just sold widgets. We thought about putting each product type on its own domain, greatbeebops.com, greatzeezoos.com, but decided against it for branding purposes primarily.
We're unhappy with our ranking for zeezoos and they are an imporant part of our revenue. What if we copied all the zeezoo product pages over to greatzeezoos.com and then put a 301 redirect to the new domain. Won't this effectively decrease rankings for some if not all of the greatstuff.com pages because now there are less total links going to greatstuff.com?
What if some of the inbound links never get updated to the new domain. Does Google eventually discount the value of those links or will the 301 pass the link juice through indefinitely?
Anyone tried this? It seems it could be a big risk. But the greatstuff.com site is beating all the competitors ranks in most of the other keywords (we rank like top 3 for many competetive keywords). But on the super competitive keywords, our competitors with the keyword in their domain, are ranking a lot higher than us even though we have more total inbound links in most cases.
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