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Thanks Adam.

He currently doesn't have anything hosted other than the domain name unfortunately. If I was to get a splash page up there, I would have to host it.

I'll ask him about buying the domain, and if it went through, what's the most effective method of utilising this?

I was a little concerned that Google might look at the redirect unfavourably, especially if it was hosted by us, and using the same company that hosts our own site.

Maybe I'm making it more complicated than it is?

Appreciate your help

Thanks Rob!

It seems that buying the domain would give us lots more options... I really only spoke to the owner about the possibility for a splash page or 301 redirect

It's all a bit new to me really, the URL gives a 404 Error at the moment, so the content of his old site is gone.

If I was to buy the domain, how would I go about doing the page by page redirects?

I set up a crawl there, and did a little research on Open Site Explorer; found 50 Links from 34 Domains. So there's definitely juice there!

Hi there!

I've got a site selling outdoor jackets and remembered about a friend's old business website (that also sold outdoor jackets) which is now dormant.

He's kindly agreed to let me host a splash page on his old domain, or to use the domain to redirect.

I wasn't sure if Google looked negatively at redirects, so I suggested the page host option? What do you think?

I guess what it would mean is for us to supply our name server details to him, and then ask him to put these into his DNS settings.

If we were to host a page in this way, would we add a page of relevant content, a simple link? Would this pull the link juice through?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Matt