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#1 (**permalink**) 07-21-2010

Hi all!

Would someone be able to tell me if it hurts the SEO for an established domain to forward it elsewhere?

I don't even know if this question makes sense, but I'm just trying to find out.

Thanks for your help!

#2 (**permalink**) 07-21-2010

Hi Shana!
Not sure I completely understand. Are you moving an entire site, changing the page names resulting in new URLs, or doing a 301 redirect keeping the URLs intact?

#3 (**permalink**) 07-22-2010

Hi Lisa!

Thanks for responding.

I want to simply redirect/forward "abc.com" to "123.com" - just the main domain, no actual pages are involved for this. So there won't be any identical pages from "abc" represented on "123".

"abc.com" has been around a little while though so I was just wondering if forwarding it would affect the SEO, or if there's a way to preserve that at all, or if it even makes sense.

Sorry, I'm not a SEO person, so I'm not sure I'm explaining correctly. lol

#4 (**permalink**) 07-22-2010

I think I understand : )

Search engines rank individual "pages" not an entire domain, so SEO affects individual pages only. Make sense?

#5 (**permalink**) 07-22-2010

It does - thanks so much for taking the time to answer!

#6 (**permalink**) 10-14-2010

Be careful how you do redirect.
Search engines treat it differently

See here for more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection

#7 (**permalink**) 10-29-2010

You'll really want to redirect individual pages, i.e.
oldsite[dot]com to newsite[dot]com
oldsite[dot]com/about to newsite[dot]com/about
oldsite[dot]com/contact to newsite[dot]com/contact
And so on

For any content that appeared on the old site but doesn't on the new site you should create a catchall so as to ensure anyone who access that old article or page gets redirected to the new site also.