Is this a Doorway problem?
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Hi,
You have a site with good content that you don't want it anymore, so you redirect it to another domain you have. Is it a blackhat tactic such as Doorway page?
Is this bad for SEO?
What is the best solution?
Thanks!
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If they are for the same business and carry similar information than I would say the very best thing you could do would be to bring one down and redirect the domain to the other website. Make sure to do a 301 (permanent) redirect.
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Hi, Billy.
Yes. Both websites are for the same business and they carry information about the same subject.
Thanks for the help
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Hi, Billy.
Yes. Both websites are for the same business and they carry information about the same subject.
Thanks for the help
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Yes - I think you saw exactly where I was going with my question
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Might overlap a little on Billy's questions...
So you don't want the site but you want it to continue to rank so you can drive traffic to your new site? Or you just want it there so that existing people who know of the URL will go there and be re-directed?
Either way, yes, this is a doorway at some level and as such could harm your new domain if Google spot what you are trying to do.
Saying that, you take the site down, then Google will probably just stop it ranking for anything much pretty quickly anyway.
What is the main reason for wanting to do this? What is your goal?
Andy
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so you have domain #1 with good content and we assume some authority or trust in Google, however, you no longer need the website but you do not want to let its authority go to waste. Then you have domain #2 witch is a website that you are going to continue to maintain and you would like to transfer as much of domain #1's authority to domain #2.
Let me ask you a question. Are the websites for the same business or do they carry information about the same subject?
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