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Thanks Sha! that was incredibly useful

Great, thanks!

Have you had any experience with this process? My client is anxious about a sandbox effect on the final domain so I'm trying to be as safe as possible.

Thanks Sha, that's a new perspective

Do you mean URL rewrites? Like the mechanism used to implement friendly URLs?

Dear colleagues, I have quite an unusual situation with one of my client's websites, and I could use an advise from someone who experienced the same circumstances: They are currently planning on launching a new site under the same domain (by September), when several key current pages are intended to be replaced with new equivalent pages under new URLs. So far it's pretty simple, BUT - due to a merger with another company they will be migrating their entire website to a different domain within a year. My question is - what would be the optimal solution for redirects? We are considering a 301 from the current pages to the new pages under the same domain, and once the new domain is activated - aside from defining 301 redirects from the new pages under the same domain to the new domain, we will cancel the original 301 from the old pages to the new pages on the same domain, and instead define new 301 for those pages to the new domain. What do you think? Is there a better solution - like using 302 redirects for the first stage? Has anyone tried such a procedure? Your input will be highly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Omer

Thanks for your response.

What I mean is, will the link will pass the same "juice", with and without additional parameters.

For example:

http://www.usearch.co.il/

http://www.usearch.co.il/?utm_source=coop&utm_medium=textads&utm_campaign=website

If we add UTM parameters to inbound links, for tracking specific referral behavior, will those link have the same SEO significance as links without parameters?