Duplicate domains and inbound links

[nadsab]

I have two web sites, website.com and website.net Both are indexed on google.

website.com has lots of inbound links to it, website.net has none. website.com is just a front page, the client wanted both a .com and a .net address for his website name when I set up his site so no one would hijack his domain. However website.net is where the SSL certificate is installed in, is where the guys shopping cart is, so I can not move all of the .net material to the .com site for a long time.

I set up a re direct in apache using the RedirectPermanent tag in my apache httpd.conf, and now all the .com traffic gets seamlessly re directed to the .net address when people click on the .com address in the google index.

My question is:

will all of the inbound links to the .com address now be counted for the .net address to determine PR for the .net address, or am I screwed and have to start all over asking inbound linked sites to change over to .net?

[jeremy goodrich]

Seems like Google would transfer the PR, but redirects are always tricky...best advice would be to (unfortunately) do as you have & then start trying to get people to update their links to the new url...

Perhaps somebody else has a more optimistic idea? :)