Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
They are weighing up whether they want this content on their site now.
If they do decide to 'take it back' are there any problems associated with this?
A's site is not as well-regarded or old as B's.
I'd remove from B first, 301 pages to article 'overview page', wait for G to notice then put content up on A.
Could this cause a temporary loss of trust for these pages? Or not even that? Or far worse?
I'd remove from B first, 301 pages to article 'overview page', wait for G to notice then put content up on A
I'd be wary off implementing this in the way that you suggest. It sounds quite risky to me. If I was moving content straight over from one site to another, I'd go for a straight 301, particularly if the text is word-for-word identical.
A's site is not as well-regarded or old as B's.
If this is true, then even if the move goes exactly according to plan, you should expect poorer performance of the content once it has moved to the less well referenced site.
If you go for a straight 301, this might also help any problems associated with site A appearing to just have a copy of content that originated from site B, since site B explicitly 'votes' for the moving of content via a redirect.
a temporary loss of trust for these pages
Any type of redirection carries risk, since you rely on a search engine adopting your preferred interpretation of the move - not something you should rely on if at all possible.
Strictly speaking, there can't be any loss of 'trust' since essentially the current pages won't exist any more. The content will, but that doesn't mean the same thing since it will reside under a different URL. It's possible that some of the equity built up on site B may be transferred to site A via the redirect, but there's no guarantee that this will happen completely, that it will happen at all, or even if there is any equity to transfer.
