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    • RizwanAkbar
      RizwanAkbar last edited by

      Hello friends, I have 2 android niche sites, one site is running on a technology dropped domain i catch 1 year ago it has, almost 400+ domains linking to different parts of the site, the other one i established from scratch and both are running from jan 2015. Now i want to redirect first site which already has 400 links pointing towards it to the home page of my 2nd android site.

      Is it a good idea to do so and does it give any boost in terms of seo?

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      • Martijn_Scheijbeler
        Martijn_Scheijbeler @GastonRiera last edited by

        I agree with Gaston, but usually the SEO benefits that you will see are rather small. This was a tactic that was used a couple of years ago to just buy a bunch of domains that already have a ton of links to them and then just point them to your main root domain.

        Usually the easiest signal to look at is already to see if you suddenly start redirecting certain URLs to another page.

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        • GastonRiera
          Gaston Riera last edited by

          Hi Pervaiz,

          The redirection 301 that you're planning to do might improve your SEO.

          On one hand, you must be certain that those 400 links that are in the old domain have some quality and are good for your main site.
          I do recommend you to check them over somt platmforms, like OSE or Ahrefs.

          On the other hand, in my experience making redirections like that were a pain. Remember that the momento that you set the redirect 301, all the links will be pointing to you URL, that makes a ton of new links to the final URL. I may be something that causes harm to your linkbuilding history.

          Hope it helps.
          GR.

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