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301 Redirects and SEO - I'm doign this right.. Right?

by Wi
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Hey,

I have a QQ (Quick Question)..

I have bought a domain with "special characters" in... In Denmark we have 3 letters which no one of you knows about, these are:

æ, ø and å

Anyway.. It's hard to do backlinking because not every website understands this.. So I have made a 301 redirect from one of my other sites.. Something like this:

redirect 301 /blabla.htm http:// domainæøå.dk (without spaces ofc.)

Now when I type in domain.dk/blabla.htm it INSTANTLY redirects me to domainæøå.dk..

So I guess I did that right.. But My question is:

It's true that if I build backlinks to domain.dk/blabla.htm, google and other engines will count the backlinks to domainæøå.dk - right?

Thanks,
Wi
#301 #doign #redirects #seo
  • Profile picture of the author Zag
    I have no experience with special character domains but I know with 'normal' domain names it isn't 100% and you have to take the plunge and hope the juice will flow.
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    • Profile picture of the author Wi
      Originally Posted by Zag View Post

      I have no experience with special character domains but I know with 'normal' domain names it isn't 100% and you have to take the plunge and hope the juice will flow.
      Well the domain is ranking high for it's keyword..

      But what I wan't to know is: Is the linkjuice to domain.dk/blabla.htm (which redirects to the other domain) going to domainæøå.dk ?

      Lets say that it's a normal domain - because it is in my country Would the linkjuice go to the redirected domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author PhilipSEO
    Originally Posted by Wi View Post

    It's true that if I build backlinks to domain.dk/blabla.htm, google and other engines will count the backlinks to domainæøå.dk - right?
    This is correct, with the caveat that some unspecified (but presumably low) % of the power of the redirected links will be lost (Google has recently admitted that link juice degrades somewhat via 301s). For ranking and PR purposes, it is better to build links directly to your main domain, although for marketing purposes you may choose to redirect.

    I hope this helps!
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    • Profile picture of the author Wi
      Originally Posted by PhilipSEO View Post

      This is correct, with the caveat that some unspecified (but presumably low) % of the power of the redirected links will be lost (Google has recently admitted that link juice degrades somewhat via 301s). For ranking and PR purposes, it is better to build links directly to your main domain, although for marketing purposes you may choose to redirect.

      I hope this helps!
      Okay thank you

      Well.. With the characters in my new domain it counts 99% of the world wide web out for direct linking... This is just a guess! Because it has something to do with the Meta UTF-8 and so on..

      Did Google mention HOW much it will be degraded?
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      • Profile picture of the author PhilipSEO
        Originally Posted by Wi View Post

        Okay thank you
        You are very welcome, but that's what the Thanks button below the message is for.

        Did Google mention HOW much it will be degraded?
        No, they don't. It's not much. But the problem is that if all your links come through a 301, then it will definitely look weird to Google. I think you are better off doing things the other way around: getting a domain with regular characters, moving your site to it, and doing 301-redirects from the spéçïâl-character domain to the normal one.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesM
    PhilipSEO has it right - you want to use the the non-internationalised version as your main domain and backlink to that, then use you encoded version for marketing purposes (print, business cards etc.) with a redirect to the vanilla version.

    Also, use the 'canonical' meta tag with the vanilla domain on all your pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author SledgeHammer
      Domains with special/language specific characters is difficult to rank in the international markets.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sam Haenni
    In additional to a 301 redirect you can setup all Domains in the Google Webmaster Tools and then tell Google which Domain you want to appear in the SERPs.

    I did this when I had to switch a Website to a new Domain. After a few weeks the new Domain had the same Google Page Rank (4) as the old Domain.
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