301 for a domain to another domain

[123seotools]

Hi ,

I have two websites that I want to rank for the same keyword . Is it a good idea to redirect (301) a domain to the main website ?

Will this help in serps ?
May this hurt my websites ?
Anyone experienced this , results ?

Thanks a lot and please share your thoughts about this .

[seojunkie]

It is always a good idea to do a 301 on a secondary domain name(s) to the main site. If both sites host the same content, it will trigger a duplicate content filter and they will experience a decline in the search results.

Will this help in serps ?

Placing a 301 on the other domain will trasfer its PR and traffic to the main site and thus it will boost its rankings.

May this hurt my websites ?

No

Anyone experienced this , results ?

It is not a new tactic and lots of people have used it. It helps and not doing so can hurt your site.

[Athuro]

Hello

2 years ago i set 301 redirect(htaccess) from non www version to www version

something like this

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.domain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

today i need to set up subdomain on this domain, and check that my subdomain is redirected to www.domain.com/subdomain/

hmm ..

is there any way, (may be some additional code to add), and get subdomain.domain.com instead of domain.com/subdomain/

thanks

[kid disco]

This is what I'm using and it works for me...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

:cool:

[Athuro]

kid disco do u understand my question?

ur code is as mine (look above).
having this redirect u haven't ability to have subdomains.
try to create any subdomain and u'll see, that all ur subdomain redirect to domain.com/subdomain/