Which one is the best
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Dear Seo experts,
1,5 month ago i started a informative website, i started it with a blank registrated domainname. Now 1 month further I've stacked the website with content and did much linkbuilding.
Yesterday i ve bought a domainname from quarantine, its a domainname around 6 years old and has a bunch of backlinks already.
What to do next? The first one has good content and good recent linkbuilding done. The second is a better domainname and is old and has old backlinks. And also higher PA and DA then the first one.
Should i now go for the first one and 301 redirect the old domainname to the new one.
Or should I do it the opposite way, 301 redirect the new website to the old domainname and move all content to the old domainname and try to move all linkbuilding to older domain?
Hopefully anyone could give me a great answere, thank you so much!
Kind regards,
Menno
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Thank you for your fast reply.
The old domain name is a .nl and the new domain is a .com in my country .nl ranks little better than the .com. So also this will count, but i also think ill do a 301 redirect from old domain to new domain. I might help a little, it has indeed been expired. Though it is old and still has PA and DA.
Kind regards,
Menno
ps. i made it discussion because i am also curious on other opinions
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Hi Menno,
when you do a 301 redirect, from domain A to domain B, you tell search engines Domain A moved permanently to domain B and in a few weeks or months search engines will remove from their index all pages of domain A.
Ideally, the pages of domain A should be found on domain B.
If I were you, I'd 301 redirect the old domain to the new one.
Make sure the old domain it's not an expired one (all backlinks value is lost).
You may want to read these resources to find out more about 301 redirect best practices:
- http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection
- http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html
- http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105
- http://searchengineland.com/do-links-from-expired-domains-count-with-google-17811
Good luck!
P.S. I'm not a SEO expert so you'd want to read other opinions, too.
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