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Please help with possible new site purchase!!

by goin4it
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Hello everyone,

I am thinking about buying a domain that ranks very high under the keywords directly related to my main site. This domain has relative content on a pretty basic site that would come with the purchase as well. The questions that I have are as followed

1.) If I buy the domain and change it to a CMS such as Wordpress or Drupal would the rankings stay the same?

2.) If I extract the content and direct the domain to a page on my main site will the ranking stay the same?

3.) What is the best way to handle this site? I want the traffic from this site to go to my main site all the while maintaining the rankings in google. Should I just plaster ad's on this site linking it to my main site.

Thanks for any help that may come from this in advance....Im a noob at this stuff and this is my first purchase of this kind
#purchase #site
  • Profile picture of the author figgity
    If you do No. 1 and just giver your site a facelift, your page rank should stay the same provided you don't change the urls for content and stuff like that because you have to keep in mind that sites may be linking back to your site. Breaking them by moving to a CMS would not be good.

    From my experience, that's a negatory on 2. The best way to send traffic from the site you buy to your main site is a 301 redirect. That will redirect everyone and everything to your site, but you will eventually lost your PR in my experience. You could also invest in a traffic exchange script and send traffic to yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    Hi! It's really hard to speak in general, I mean without seeing your main website and the one you intend to buy, and not being aware of your monetization method but still...

    I think redirect makes no sense. There's no point of driving traffic of that website to your main one - you can make use of both streams of traffic anyway.

    You can redesign your new website so that it would look almost identical to the main one - but make sure you keep that architecture, content, urls almost unchanged - this will keep rankings and traffic the same.

    Then, if you sell an e-book, for example, incorporate the sales copy/image/banner of this ebook naturally to the new website, and drive people to your main website when they hit the buy/download button. That should do the trick.
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