Redirecting a single page to another website
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We're moving one of our services from the current website to a different domain. That domain will be dedicated just to that service. Currently, we have one page for that service on our current website. It already has been crawled and ranks well for certain keywords. But, we would want to eventually delete that page. Can I set 301 redirection for that page to another domain? At what point should I remove the page from the existing website's back-end?
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Thank you, Nicholas. We don't mind the temporary drop in rankings as we're sure we can amp it up soon. But, can't we ever remove the page from the back-end? At some point, we would like to clean our back-end and remove all the pages that are not part of the website anymore.
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I would recommend keeping the page "live", but 301ing the URL to the new domain. I would also try to make sure the new page is as possibly close to the existing page as possible if it is ranking well and you want to maintain that ranking. You still may see a drop in rankings in doing this (due to URL change, domain authority change, and other internal website factors).
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