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SEO Redirect Question

by willblieve
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I have two domains. Lets say for example they are:

example.com (7 years old, no backlinks)
examples.com (8 years old, hundreds of backlinks)

Both sites are dormant at the moment and I plan on using one of the domains to build a quick site. I am leaning towards using example.com because I believe it is slightly more memorable to type. If I set up examples.com to redirect to example.com, will the SEO strength from the backlinks be passed on to example.com?
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    No, the authority of examples.com will eventually vanish in the long run. If you really want to use example.com as you main site then go a head. Then build examples.com as a separate site and use it to send quality link and traffic to your example.com site.
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    • Profile picture of the author cchandran
      Originally Posted by edpudol1973 View Post

      No, the authority of examples.com will eventually vanish in the long run. If you really want to use example.com as you main site then go a head. Then build examples.com as a separate site and use it to send quality link and traffic to your example.com site.
      I agree with you. Quality back-links determines the authority of the website.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by edpudol1973 View Post

      No, the authority of examples.com will eventually vanish in the long run. If you really want to use example.com as you main site then go a head. Then build examples.com as a separate site and use it to send quality link and traffic to your example.com site.
      That is complete horseshit. Authority does not just vanish.

      A 301 redirect will do what you want it to.
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      • Profile picture of the author bookathing
        I agree. The 301 will accomplish your goal.
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      • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        That is complete horseshit. Authority does not just vanish.

        A 301 redirect will do what you want it to.
        NO it's not. I speak with experience not by theory. If you do not believe it, try it. 301 redirects will not surely pass all the authority of the older site to new site. And since the older site is no longer active, it will slowly losing it's authority and eventually gone.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by edpudol1973 View Post

          NO it's not. I speak with experience not by theory. If you do not believe it, try it. 301 redirects will not surely pass all the authority of the older site to new site. And since the older site is no longer active, it will slowly losing it's authority and eventually gone.
          Yeah it is total crap. Sites do not just magically lose authority just because you do a 301 redirect. It would have to lose links, but that goes for any site with or without a 301 redirect.
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          • Profile picture of the author willblieve
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            Yeah it is total crap. Sites do not just magically lose authority just because you do a 301 redirect. It would have to lose links, but that goes for any site with or without a 301 redirect.
            So you believe that if I use a redirect, the site without the backlinks would gain some of the SEO authority from the site with backlinks? Would it gain all of the SEO authority as if it was the site itself?
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        • Profile picture of the author swiftini
          Originally Posted by edpudol1973 View Post

          NO it's not. I speak with experience not by theory. If you do not believe it, try it. 301 redirects will not surely pass all the authority of the older site to new site. And since the older site is no longer active, it will slowly losing it's authority and eventually gone.
          Are you serious? How did you test the declining authority of the site? Did Google email you and tell you your site no longer had authority or did you use a useless online PR checker or something.

          This is BS. Dude watch the Matt Cutts video - get the straight dope from the horses mouth. 301 passes link juice.
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      • Profile picture of the author swiftini
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        That is complete horseshit. Authority does not just vanish.

        A 301 redirect will do what you want it to.
        Yeah man - 100% bang on - that is total BS. All you need to do is implement a 301 redirect and all your link juice will be passed from domain 1 to domain 2. What amazes me more than uninformed advice is other people backing it up.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    You'll get better results if you use examples.com. The fact that example.com is more memorable is not enough reason to pick it over a similar domain that has hundreds of backlinks and more age.
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  • Profile picture of the author ahmansoor
    Use 301 redirect - not all SEO juice will be transferred , but most of it likely be!
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    OP didn't say the domain with all the links was actually followed links. For all we know he's just counting links which doesn't rank pages. If he doesn't know about 301s he might not understand decent backlinks vs useless links.
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    • Profile picture of the author willblieve
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      OP didn't say the domain with all the links was actually followed links. For all we know he's just counting links which doesn't rank pages. If he doesn't know about 301s he might not understand decent backlinks vs useless links.
      Im not an expert on links or redirects but in this case, I have used ahrefs to check the link quality and there are a fair amount of valuable links. What I am trying to determine is if I lose any SEO authority and if so, how much by setting up a 301?

      So say my SEO authority is 10 points for examples.com. If I redirect that to example.com, would example.com now have an authority of 10 points? 8 points? 2 points?
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lee
    It could be due to the fact he's selling PBN's, and that's where he's been experiencing what he's stating.

    Since most domains used for PBN's get turned into link farms, or if they're redirected, it's usually to a completely different site than it was when people linked to it.

    If real people linked to it in the past, they usually take it down after seeing the change and the old domain "loses its authority."
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  • Profile picture of the author trimantra
    if you redirect Examples.com to Example.com than all your main site is Example.com and its dose not take any advantages of examples.com back links or other SEO goals.
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