A Silly question...

[ApeXX]

Pardon my ignorance,

Will forwarding a domain, or pointing it to a subdirectory of another website have any negative effects on page rank?

For example, if I forwarded http://www.mydomain.com to http://www.myotherwebsite.com/mydomain/, will there be any consquences with page rank? I could have sworn I read that somewhere but I'm not sure. Like if I decide later to forward the same domain to a different address, will the domain retain the page rank or is it tied to the subdirectory?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[provokebpk]

You should be fine, since when google and other search engines crawl your site, they notice that you have a link forwarder in place. However, I think this is only true with 301 redirects. So just to be safe, I suggest you create a 301 redirect, instead of a javascript one.

If you change "http://www.myotherwebsite.com/mydomain/" to a different domain, the PR of "http://www.mydomain.com" will, but the PR of "http://www.myotherwebsite.com/mydomain/" might change.

 

[dan_Vt]

Definitely do a 301. You may see a drop in PR initially, but given time (months) the belief is the PR will flow to the new domain/page.

 

[abdussamad]

All the benefits of the backlinks of mydomain.com will pass to myotherwebsite.com/mydomain if you do a 301 redirect.

 

[MutoGen]

Redirect thrugh .htaccess doesn't help?

 

[dan_Vt]

Redirect thrugh .htaccess doesn't help?

The 301 is done in the .htaccess file.