I Need advice in redirecting domains
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I have tow domains (destination/town - travel websites), www.gansbaai.com, and www.danger-point-peninsula.co.za. The one, gansbaai.com is an old domain I bought under which I will be launching a new website in a couple of months. danger-point-peninsula.co.za, is another domain I acquired also about gansbaai, the area. I will we using the domain gansbaai.cm, but want to get the best link juice out of danger-point-peninsula. How do I merge the domains?
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Hi Joe
Thanks for your advice, however, if you look at the websites, gansbaai.com it is really bad, only has 1 page, I really only bought it for the domian age and couple of links it has (and because I want to launch my new sit under this domain)....so there are not enough pages to 301 all danger-point, and I want to loose as little link juice as possible....Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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To get the best SEO benefit, simply 301 redirect each page on the danger-point-peninsula.co.za to the most relevant page on gansbaai.com. This way anchor text will still be appropriate to the pages and users who go through the old backlinks will land on a page that provides about the same information that they were trying to find.
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