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Hi Pashmina,

Was wondering the results of your test.  Have recently interacted with VSW and not sure if it's even worth giving it a trial run.  Their CPC is much higher than Adwords and I question their contextual targeting ability.

The account manager is nice, but a fast talker.  He seems to be more accustomed to dealing with people that know nothing about SEM.

Any feedback you have would be welcomed!

Hi Guys,

So here's the deal.

Let's say I have a site at mysite.com/ which talks about tomatoes, and I also have a subsection that talks about potatoes at mysite.com/potatoes

I want to stop providing information about potatoes altogether so i'm thinking about doing a 301 redirection from all of the pages at mysite.com/potatoes(.*) to the home page.

The thing is, mysite.com/potatoes actually has a great page authority (3475 links from 145 domains) so I really don't wan to lose all that juice...

Here are my questions:

• Will the links be added to the ones i have for the homepage already?
• Since my home page and my /potatoes section ranked for 2 different subjects, how is this transfer going to affect my rankings for the homepage? will it now also rank for both tomatoes AND potatoes?
• How much time does it usually take for google to recognize the 301 and pass the link juice?
• Any other tips on optimizing this process?

Thank you for your time!

-francois