What happens when a de-indexed subdomain is redirected to another de-indexed subdomain? What happens to the link juice?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

We are planning to de-index and redirect a sub domain A to sub domain B. Consequently we now need to d-index sub domain B also. What happens now to the link juice or page rank they gained from hundreds and thousands of backlinks? Will there be any ranking impact on main domain? Backlinks of these sub domains are not much relevant to main domain content.

Thanks

[vtmoz]

Exactly as you said.

I wonder what ranking fluctuation or dip we can expect with main domain due to this deindexing of sub domains. Someone claims that ranking will be dropped, but how? Still sub-domain "B" will be there with all backlinks. So the backlinks are there technically.

Please let me know your valuable thoughts on this.

Thanks

[JackSaville]

Hi there,

To confirm, sub-domain A has been indexed for a number of years and has gained a high number of backlinks in that time? However now you are now no-indexing subdomain A, 301 redirecting A to B, and then also no-indexing subdomain B?

thanks