Lots of questions about 301 redirects?

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I want to start a local business directory. I think it may be a good way to get in the door with local businesses. And try to pull some SEO gigs.

Does it matter what the domain was before it was used at a 301? If I found a great domain about kid books and pointed it at my SEO site and started sending links to it. What would happen? Will it still pass all the link juice and metrics? Or will it get smacked for having nothing to do with SEO?

Does a 301 redirect just pass all the links to the new site? If that is the case could you say I am just buying an aged link profile to ad to my site with domains?

Should I build three page WP sites on all these before I redirect them?

How much of the link juice gets passed in a 301. If I point the TF-18 CIT-8 site at a fresh domain will the new domain now also be 18/6?

Should they be trickled on to the new sites? Or can I just plug them in.

This is the breakdown of the domains I picked up. I have $40 invested in this bunch. All the domains were directories at one point. I will most likely use 2-3 of these for my SEO site. And use the rest for the business directory.

An old seo-web-directory - TF-6 CIT-11 373-links 142-Domains 7yo

An English Directory - TF-14 CIT-7 12-links 8-Domains 4yo

A old Diamond buying directory - TF-11 CIT-6 23-Links 14-Domains 10yo

An old business directory - TF-15 CIT-6 7-Links 2-Domains 2yo

A religious directory - TF-18 CIT-8 109-Links 1-Domian 1yo This goes to a Jewish learning site with a domain that is paid until 2018. So I think the links are safe a while.

Business directory - TF-14 CIT-6 3-links 2- Domains 2yo

An old article directory - TF-12 CIT-9 45-Links 17-Domains 8yo

Any feedback of thought on this will help. Sorry it's so long, I wanted to make sure to cover everything.

Thanks
#search engine optimization #301 #lots #questions #redirects
  • Maybe you should try asking less questions

    - Relevance helps but isn't imperative, so you can 301 an unrelated site to your site and build links through it. This is blackhat (in case you didn't know).

    - I think you'll get better results if you build sites on those domains and then build links to them before redirecting them.

    - Some SEOs say 90%+ of the link juice is transferred but, in my experience, all of it gets transferred.

    - I've never redirected more than one site to any single domain so can't answer your question regarding whether to 301 all of them at once or drip feed them.
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    • SEO Power are you sure this is the case? I just read this in another thread. The last thing I want is to hurt my rankings. I have no problems trying it on a new site. But I have the fear of doing it on my main site.

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  • What your doing is trying to redirect say a website that was once a kids book site, which may have a lot of backlinks for "kids books" and directing it to SEO themed website, well depending on how many backlinks were built to old site, if its a ton then it might be wise to build backlinks to those sites first, then redirecting it

    infact i done this 2 months ago, i purchased a good domain, built backlinks that were relevent to the site it was about to be redirected too, and then applied a full 301, and transfered new links that were actualy relevent as i say to the place it was going, worked out just fine

    up to 90% was transfererd, you do lose some juice with a transfer
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    • Can you tell me if you built a small website on the domain first? Say just a three page relevant WordPress site. And then link to that new site before you did a 301 redirect.

      Thanks
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    Lots of questions about 301 redirects?

    I want to start a local business directory. I think it may be a good way to get in the door with local businesses. And try to pull some SEO gigs. Does it matter what the domain was before it was used at a 301? If I found a great domain about kid books and pointed it at my SEO site and started sending links to it. What would happen? Will it still pass all the link juice and metrics? Or will it get smacked for having nothing to do with SEO?