SEO Redirection

[luckyga]

Hi,

I've a number of old affiliate sites that I am currently winding down and not updating, once the domain reg expires I won't bother renewing them.

In the mean time, is it worth me redirecting these old site URLs to new website homepages that I have built? Would this have a negative impact from a SEO perspective on the new sites?

Thanks,

[RichardV]

Hi,

I've a number of old affiliate sites that I am currently winding down and not updating, once the domain reg expires I won't bother renewing them.

In the mean time, is it worth me redirecting these old site URLs to new website homepages that I have built? Would this have a negative impact from a SEO perspective on the new sites?

Thanks,

i would not bother doing that if you're going to drop the domains whenever they expire you're going to lose all links again. won't look good i guess.

[citizen42]

Yes, redirecting a lot of pages to homepage can cause problems and get the website penalized.


What I see usually people do is redirect the old homepage to a new one.
I'd do that if the old site had links pointing to it and some page/domain authority.

[Anchovy]

Redirecting old web pages to your money site by 301 is considered a black hat technique - I would be very careful by doing it because the risk of google manual penalties is really high.

Apparently, it's working very well tho, so high risk - high reward.

[moizez]

It depends on the quality of the domains you 301. Usually a 301 was done using great expired domains (i.e. linked from high authority websites)
The better way whatever the authority is to link from the domain as it is instead of 301s.

Then you can experiment with a more agressive linkbuilding.

[schegolev100]

Hi, if old domains have a link weight it is better to extend them and put 301 redirect to new domain. If whois information and content of all domains the same, negative consequences will not be. And the links weight will be transferred to the new domain.