redirecting a domain to my site

I know this has been covered, but I posting anyways

[microcars]

if anyone can point me to a conversation about this, thanks, it seems like an obvious question/answer, but its all new to me!

here's my deal:

Lets say I have 2 domains that are active websites:
example.com with a pretty good PR and maybe 1500 inbound links.
examples.com with low page rank and maybe 150 inbound links.

If I decide to simply redirect examples.com to example.com, is there anything BAD that can happen because of this?

Does example.com suffer at all? Is there any way that the redirecting of examples.com can accidently screw up the PR of example.com?

Or vice-versa?

I already have a few other domain names that did NOT have active websites that "point" to example.com, I don't think they hurt it but I don't really know.

[goodroi]

301 redirects will do the trick just fine, 302 redirects used to cause big issues but now they are handled by the engines much better than before. There are too many threads to post. Just do a "site:webmasterworld.com redirect" search on a search engine and you'll see all the threads.

[Tribe]

open notepad;

insert this code;

<?php
$url = "http://www.THEPAGEYOUWANTPEOPLETOSEEGOESHERE.COM";
$html = file_get_contents($url);
echo $html;
?>

Save it as index.htm & ftp it to the domain you want redirected.

It will not redirect it at all, but instead uses that domain to call up the content of the other domain via php. When the SE visits page that has this code, it actually sees the source code of the other page & you will end up with two domains indexed for same keywords & sourcecode

[MatthewHSE]

Tribe, won't that cause duplicate content problems?

[Tribe]

Tribe, won't that cause duplicate content problems?

There are no problems with duplicate content.
Look how many sites are 100% rss feed generated. Also, even when a domain is redirected, it's the same thing, wether done via dns, CNAME, javascript, meta refresh, ... however it is done, the results are all the same. I could be wrong on this, however, I once asked the same question when discussing rss & was told that SE's don't really penalyze for duplicate content.