I have an old site that has PR4 and a few backlinks. I want to delete all content and redirect all traffic and page rank (if possible) to another site I have. I know that a 301 redirect is the safest way to do it, but do I need hosting for old-domain.com (with only a .htaccess file) or can I just park the domain at godaddy and forward it to new-domain.com? Is that a 301 or 302 redirect?
Similar question, regarding hosting companies, some of them have packages where one can have 5, 10... parked domains. Are those parked domains the same as 301 redirects?
Thanks!
GoDaddy forwarding uses 302 instead of 301. If forwarding used a 301, it would be as good as a full blown account with .htaccess.
Oh, there's a bug in GoDaddy's forwarding... interior pages get redirected to a url with too many slashes in it. It still works for human visitors, though.
