Domain pointers and Google

[wellzy]

I have a website www.widget.net that just got it's first PR. The domain www.widget.com became available so I bought it and just redirected it to www.widget.net. Will this hurt my PR or be considered a duplicate site?
wellzy

[wasmith]

I've had pages with nothing but redirected links from as long ago as 12/2002 with the result of any link to the page with the redirect increases the PR of the destination. I've got alot of things in flux right now but i believe any redirected link <U>that is</u> crawled the PR goes to the destination. The <U>that is crawled</u> becomes important on pages with lessor PR, that may not be fully crawled.

edited --- what did i say.

Yes, if the link is followed by google it counts regardless if the link url is a redirect. But if the page with the link has a low PR it does not matter much and may not be crawled anytime soon.

[Susanne]

wellzy,
Are you actually redirecting the new URL to the old one by having a page/s uploaded to a server? Or is the new domain simply POINTING to the old one? In the first option, if you actually have pages uploaded under the dot com URL, then you might be out on thin ice. But if the dot com is only a parked URL that is pointing to the pages under the dot net URL, then no worries!

[wellzy]

It is just pointing. It does not have any of it's own content. Thank you for your help.
wellzy