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Passing multiple PRs with 301 redirects?

by Neen
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If one website has a PR6 and I do a 301 redirect to a 2nd website with no PR, the 2nd website will obtain the PR6 eventually because it's been passed on from the first domain.

What if I had 3 PR6 websites all redirecting to one site. Would that pass on the PR of all three domains?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by Neen View Post

    If one website has a PR6 and I do a 301 redirect to a 2nd website with no PR, the 2nd website will obtain the PR6 eventually because it's been passed on from the first domain.

    What if I had 3 PR6 websites all redirecting to one site. Would that pass on the PR of all three domains?
    You won't necessarily have a PR 6 doing that.

    In all the testing that has been done, 301's have been found to not pass 100% of the PR and rankings on to the new domain. It may or may not be a PR 6, but you are going to lose some power in it.

    If you start doing this with multiple domains and it doesn't really, really make sense why you are doing it (other than to bleed PR), Google is not stupid. They will catch on.
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    • Profile picture of the author Neen
      Thanks for your feedback

      I have a valid reason for the question. I'm trying to figure out if I should invest in domain names with the current year in them (the products I promote are seasonal fashion items).

      A few years down the line I'll probably be wanting to redirect the domains from previous years to the domain with the current year. If that makes sense.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by Neen View Post


        A few years down the line I'll probably be wanting to redirect the domains from previous years to the domain with the current year. If that makes sense.

        How is that going to help you rank if the anchor text is year specific and if it isn't why bother with having to change domains?
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        • Profile picture of the author Neen
          Let's say 20% of the anchor text has the date in it and the rest isn't date specific. I'm not sure what you mean with that anyway? I was thinking that the PR from the old sites would get passed to the current site, and that's got nothing to do with anchor text? :confused:
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by Neen View Post

            Let's say 20% of the anchor text has the date in it and the rest isn't date specific. I'm not sure what you mean with that anyway? I was thinking that the PR from the old sites would get passed to the current site, and that's got nothing to do with anchor text? :confused:
            PR for PR sake makes no difference to your business. You can have a PR7 and not rank for your target keywords. the only value of PR (and it HAS value don't make those ignorant of it tell you otherwise) is as a measure of links coming into your site. If the links coming in are not targeted they have less value ranking in the serp you are attempting to rank.

            Are you under the impression that having year specific domains is going to be key in ranking? That went out last year. You can rank much easier with no domain specific domain and its a much better strategy than changing your domain year after year
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            • Profile picture of the author Neen
              I was thinking of link building each year, to each of the new domains. I was *hoping* that I could take my previous years efforts along with me, by redirecting the 'old' sites to the current one.

              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

              Are you under the impression that having year specific domains is going to be key in ranking? That went out last year. You can rank much easier with no domain specific domain and its a much better strategy than changing your domain year after year
              Yes I am under that impression with this idea that I have My understanding is that keyword specific domains are no longer as strong as they used to be, but they haven't completely lost their value.

              Do you think this idea seems like too much hard work, from an SEO perspective?
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