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Site rental...redirect?

by epark732
7 replies
Hi,
I have a few sites ranking highly that were designed to be rented out. I'm just wondering if I could simply redirect the traffic to my client's website? In other words, someone searches for city+profession, finds and clicks on my site, and is automatically redirected to my client's site. Is there any problem with this in the eyes if google? Will my rankings possibly drop? Basically is there any reason at all why I should not do this?

Thanks

Eric
#rentalredirect #site
  • Profile picture of the author ScouterGuy
    If you redirect your site with a 301 or 302, then you are telling Google that the content is no longer available here, so that would basically remove your listing from google over time. If you on the other hand continue to create great content and simply redirect the sales to the other site that might be useful, but I would say that the best way is probably to use your site to capture leads and then hand over those leads to the company that you are working for. Ensure you have this in your privacy policy or alike though.
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  • Profile picture of the author ScouterGuy
    Btw.... this doesn't really belong in the "Offline Marketing Discussion". Dont you think it would be better suited in a different section?
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    • Profile picture of the author epark732
      Hi,

      Thank you for your reply. The reason I posted this in the offline marketing forum is because the clients are offline business owners, hence offline marketing, and I have read and participated in several threads related to different aspects of the rent a site model in this very forum.

      That being said, is there any other way to possibly accomplish this rather than a 301 or 302 redirect? If there isn't, then oh well. It seems that there should be some way to do it.

      Thanks again,

      Eric
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  • Profile picture of the author ScouterGuy
    I gave you two different options above. 1) Either collect the leads and hand over the leads to them to follow up on. 2) A normal link to their website and offering
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  • Profile picture of the author vndnbrgj
    Like previously stated, you have a few options.
    1. Have a phone number on your site, forward to the business owners phone.
    2. Have the contact form cc to the business.

    Aside from this, I don't understand why you are trying to redirect your site to another site. The goal of your site is to generate leads for the business that is renting the site. They don't care about your traffic, they care about your results. So give them the results, and just continue to build traffic to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author dsprank
    If you collect the leads yourself, then you have tangible results to show to the client. That will help keep them with you, as long as you are providing for them.

    If you redirect traffic to their website, the results are much harder to prove. They may not have a website that produces, so they could back out if they are not seeing the results of renting your site. Even if you prove that you were sending traffic, they will not care if they are losing money from because of their site.

    Sending traffic to their site gives up some control, don't do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Green Diamond
    If you do it like what you exaplained you will loss your traffic sources in a while with Google.

    Best way is to have all those content, etc... & top to your website you write your clients site tel, address, web, etc...

    The above way you can have your money sources & redirect traffic to your client website.
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