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Hi,

We have a client with an old domain that they want to redirect to their primary domain.

They also have a few older domains pointing to the old domain. Do you recommend leaving them as redirects that point to the old domain? This will create a redirect to a redirect situation.

Or, is it better to go ahead and redirect those older domains to the primary one's, removing one layer of redirect?

Thank you!

Jessie

Our thought was since the old domain has a lot of SEO credibility it would be good to keep a  few resource pages that direct to the new domain. Is this incorrect thinking? Would it be better to let go of the old domain and permanently 301 redirect the whole website, passing 90%+ of the link juice to the new domain?

I agree that from the usability stand point that it would be better to permanent 301 redirect the old homepage to the new domain.

We are going to be redesigning our website and switching to a new domain.

I think we will set up a permanent 301 redirect from each page of the old domain to a page on the new domain. We would like to leave the old domain homepage up with all content removed and have a link pointing to the new domain. Is there any SEO harm to leaving the old domain homepage up?

Thank you!

Jessie

We have two different homepages for our website. One is designed for daytime users (i.e. businesses), whereas the second night version is designed with home consumers in mind.

Is this hurting our SEO by having two homepage urls, instead of just building a strong presence around one?

We have set up canonical meta on each one:

• On the night version: domain.com/indexnight.html we have a
• On the day version: domain.com/index.html we have a

It seems to me that we should just choose one of them and set up a permanent 301 redirect from one to the other.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, thank you!