301 & backlinks
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Apologies if my question sounds like a school Maths lesson
If you have 2 sites:
Site 1) is linked to by sites A,B & C
Site 2) is linked to by sites X,Y & Z
You then 301 redirect site 2 to site 1. Most of the juice from site 2 (obtained from links X,Y,Z) should be passed over to site 1.
But what if site 2 is linked to by the same sites A,B,C as site 1 instead of X,Y,Z.
Since both sites have exactly the same links will the same, less, or any weight be passed over by the 301 redirect?
Many thanks.
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I think this would be the same as adding the same backlink twice to a site. If so, Google will only give credit for one. I just noticed I am answering a question from 2011, but got here trying to answer a question of my own about backlinks. Hopefully, Marty has already figured this out, but I am fairly certain I am correct about the link juice passed. It only counts once.
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Its difficult to say what happens exactly in this scenario but some value of the links might be discredited as Google's algo may be able to identify the relation.
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