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Quick question regarding 301's

by K L Smithurst
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Hi, If i have a 301 setup such as mydomain.com --> mydomain.com/blog and i build backlinks and get pr etc to this blog will i keep all backlinks and pr when i remove the redirect?

essentially because of the redirect the backlinks i build will still be pointing to mydomain.com.

The idea is to have some pr and backlinks in place when i launch the main site in a couple months, will this work?
#301 #question #quick #redirects
  • Profile picture of the author K L Smithurst
    Anyone have any feedback on this please?

    Let me try explain it better:

    I have mydomain.com redirected with a 301 redirect to mydomain/blog

    I will build backlinks to mydomain.com

    My main site (mydomain.com) will go live in a couple months and i will remove the 301 redirect so the new live site is on mydomain.com and my blog is on mydomain/blog.

    My question is will all the backlinks i built and the pr i gain still be there after i remove the redirect?

    Thanks for any help
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    • Profile picture of the author dougp
      Originally Posted by K L Smithurst View Post

      Anyone have any feedback on this please?

      Let me try explain it better:

      I have mydomain.com redirected with a 301 redirect to mydomain/blog

      I will build backlinks to mydomain.com

      My main site (mydomain.com) will go live in a couple months and i will remove the 301 redirect so the new live site is on mydomain.com and my blog is on mydomain/blog.

      My question is will all the backlinks i built and the pr i gain still be there after i remove the redirect?

      Thanks for any help
      Im assimung the purpose of you doing this is to build links to your homepage while your website is being completed? If thats the case, just build links to your blog, and make a 301 redirect to your homepage once its ready to go live. In this way all of the link juice that you acquired from your blog, will now be pointed towards your homepage.

      Doug
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      • Profile picture of the author K L Smithurst
        Thanks for the reply Doug, yes my intention is to start my backlinking asap while my site is being developed.

        I understand that i can just build backlinks to mydomain.com/blog and then make a redirect to my domain.com once the site goes live but that still didn't answer my question.

        I intend to keep the blog where it is, but i want the link / pr juice to be on the main domain, hence my plan to do it like i described.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Not exactly what you are asking, but this is one variation
    on one of my sites.

    I completely re-did a dot com and turned it into a blog.
    I did the 301 redirect from domain.com to domain.com/blog.

    I build backlinks going only to the dot com. I knew the domain.com
    had a PR4. This thread got me curious as to what the other was.
    I just checked and domain.com/blog is also PR4.

    So, this is a case where I have a 301 redirect and both the
    dot com and dot com/blog have the same PR. Funny thing,
    I just did a search for the domain and what pops up is just
    domain.com/blog not the domain by itself. Since I am
    keeping it a blog, I can only speculate that it would take
    time for google to re-index the site as a dot com and
    a blog. The PR would probably stay intact.

    My advice would be to keep it as a blog, BTW.

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  • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
    I like doug's suggestion very much but I will like to suggest use 302

    You can also use 302 which is a temp redirect 301 is saying its moved for good 302 says it has moved for a small period of time.

    Hope it helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author K L Smithurst
      Thanks Paul that was helpful.

      I can only speculate that it would take
      time for google to re-index the site as a dot com and
      a blog. The PR would probably stay intact.
      Maybee someone has done this before and can confim that this is what
      will happen when i remove the redirect and my new site is on mydomain.com?
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  • Profile picture of the author cpa-money
    if you do redirect 301 than basically it doesnt metter if you link to the first url or the second because those address counts as one.

    but you can use this technique to hide your back links from your competitors. meaning you keep building links to the old url and your competitors will not see it because they do a search on the new url.

    but maybe if they are smart enough they will check the headers of the url and might be able to revent it.
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