Does PageRank Transfer From Your Old Site To Your New Site?

Since Google recommends (using a "301" code in HTTP headers)

[Christyl Stevens]

Since Google is recommending that you place a permanent redirect (using a "301" code in HTTP headers) from your old site to your new site, will Google also transfer all the current PageRank to the new site?

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2. You continue listing an 'old' version of my site.

Once your new site is live, you may wish to place a permanent redirect (using a "301" code in HTTP headers) on your old site to inform visitors and search engines that your site has moved.

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[seindal]

I changed all the file names on a site two month ago, making 301 redirects from the old names to the new, and with the january update the transition is done and the pagerank has been transferred. So it does work. Apparently pagerank passes transparently through a 301 redirect.

René.

[shrirch]

I had 301's when I moved to a new domain. Also had a very prominent link on the old site to the new site.

Within a month of the new domain being deep crawled, I had a PR of 6 (got about 4 or 5 PR5 sites including the old one, Yahoo and DMOZ listings).