Alias domain setting

[gabandrei]

I read a bit about alias domain settings before this. But I didn't figure out what is the best way of doing it.

I do have a site: http://www.my-domain.com which has good PR and nice rankings.

I realized that users are more tempted to type http://www.mydomain.com, so I bought this one too. I would like them to find the same content as in the original site, without hurting its rankings; I know about duplicate content issue.

301 redirect will work in this case? It's not the usual way of redirecting the old site to the new one; but redirecting the new site to the old one. My original site will be affected? The new site is not indexed yet.

[edited by: tedster at 9:01 am (utc) on Jan. 8, 2009]
[edit reason] de-link the urls [/edit]

[tedster]

Hello gabandrei, and welcome to the forums.

Yes, a 301 redirect for this purpose is exactly right. The new domain will not show up in the SERPs, but users who type your name without the dash will now get to your content on your established domain, exactly as you hope. It's a good thing to do when you can. Some companies collect hundreds of typo domains - even Google does it!

[gabandrei]

One more question.
I knew that 301 redirect says "this page is permanent moved to the new address". And if I do redirect an old page with PR 5 let's say to the new one, in time the new one gets all the attributes of the old.
In my case - the pages I want to redirect are not indexed. This will not affect the PR of old pages?

[tedster]

If the page isn't indexed, then there's no PR available - so no, there wouldn't be any effect on the old page. It wasn't indexed and it won't be indexed.

[gabandrei]

Thanks a lot for your help.