Combining two sites into one - possible to save PR?

by trom77

Posted: 14 years ago 6 replies

Quick question for your IMers out there.

We have been promoting 2 sister sites that are very similar in nature. They offer similar services (marketing, SEO, etc.) and have a similar design and feel. Both of them currently have a PR of 3. It's getting to the point that they are competing with each other for ranking. We've decided to combine them into a single site in order to focus all our efforts into promoting one url.

Can anyone recommend the best way to do this? Should we create a delayed redirect, where they each say 'We've moved...' or should we just set up an immediate and permanent redirect? Is there any way to make sure the PR from both sites is carried over to the new one? I'd hate to lose all the backlinks we've done.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks all.

#combining #save #sites

Ken Troyer 14 years ago

Hi trom77,

Just do a 301 redirect...and the PR will be transferred.

1. Locate or create a .htaccess file on your server.

2. If you don't have an .htaccess file on your server, you can easily create one using a text file. Name it ".htaccess"

3. If there is already an .htaccess file scroll down past the code that is already there and begin your new redirect instructions.

4. Put in your redirect information, which should look like this:
redirect 301 /old/old.html http://www.you.com/new.html

*Note: The first part "/old/old.html" is the location of the file being moved and the second part "http://www.you.com/old/old.html" is where the file is being moved.

5. Upload the file to your server.

That's it.

Ken
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trom77 14 years ago

Much thanks Ken. Theoretically, using this setup, would both pages PR of 3 eventually transfer to the new site?
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- marcdonovan 14 years ago
  
  http://hugi.to/blog/archive/2003/10/...site-redirects
  
  Try it and see what happens.
  
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  marcdonovan 14 years ago
  
  Solving Google Page Rank problems with a 301Redirect
  
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- Ken Troyer 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by trom77
  
  Much thanks Ken. Theoretically, using this setup, would both pages PR of 3 eventually transfer to the new site?
  
  Yes it will.
  
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johnsander1 14 years ago

Yes you only use 301 redirect.every thing will be fine.
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