301 Redirect Question

[PPC_Chris]

My company has two domains...

www.mycompanyname.com and www.companyproduct.com

In the past, our company basically sold one product and used that product name as our main domain. Over time, that product has declined in popularity, but our company has grown through other offerings. The domain with our company name is now where we do nearly all of our business while the product name domain has not been updated in a long time and drives very few sales. However, the old domain has some decent links coming into it (its a PR6 compared to PR5 for our main domain).

My question is this... if we place a 301 redirect from the product name domain to our main domain, will that pass "link juice" from all the links coming into www.companyproduct.com? Will this help our rankings or is there a better way to go about this?

Thanks!

[tedster]

Yes, the 301 redirect will pass link juice. Your plan is sound.

[trakkerguy]

How long before the "link juice" gets credited to the new domain?

I know this has been asked and answered many times, but it also seems google is getting much faster with indexing and counting links, and wondering if anyone has any recent experience?

[PPC_Chris]

Thanks for your help!

[supafresh]

i've redirected over 5k url's moving from one domain to another and about a week and a half later we were back to normal. This site had very high traffic and google spiders it daily so you have to take in consideration how often you get spidered.

With that in mind link juice seems to pass on fairly quickly.

[trakkerguy]

Good to know, thanks for the update supafresh

[g1smd]

Are you talking about funnelling all the URLs of the old site via a redirect to the root of the new domain?

If so, I don't think that is usually a very good idea.

I am far more happy with a set of site-wide redirects that preserve all of the folder and filenames in the redirect.

Are the pages from the old site going to be moved to the new site, but with the same folder and file names for each?