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    • undrdog99
      undrdog99 Subscriber last edited by

      I have multiple URLs that all lead to the same website. Years ago they were purchased and were sitting dormant. Currently they are 301 redirects and each of the URLs feed to different areas of my website. Should I be worried about losing authority? And if so, is there a better way to do this?

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      • MickEdwards
        MickEdwards @GlobeRunner last edited by

        I would go further than that and check the link profiles of all the domains.  Any sign of spam, unnatural anchor text etc then do not redirect as you'll inject that problem into your site.  Even if you believe them to be dormant and never used I would just check in case you were not the original owner.  Always worth doing that check.

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        • GlobeRunner
          GlobeRunner last edited by

          With 10 URLs ( I think you mean 10 different domains?), you should be fine. If those URLs have a lot of links pointing to them, though, there could potentially be an issue. So, if there were 1,000 links to each one, then you'd be redirecting 10,000 links. It really depends on how many links we're ultimately talking about.

          I have seen situations where thousands of domains were redirected, and that was a problem--it was also a problem with about 100 domains redirected, as they all had links pointing to them.

          What I would do is look at your analytics to see which of them are actually sending traffic to your site, which ones have links pointing to them. Then only redirect the ones that have traffic and links and ones that are on-topic.

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          • RobertFisher
            RobertFisher last edited by

            I would be shocked if it were an issue based on what you have here. I think you are fine.

            Robert

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            • undrdog99
              undrdog99 Subscriber @RobertFisher last edited by

              Thank you for the reply. It is about 10 URLs to a golf website and some URLs i.e. bestgolf.com point to the main page whereas i.e. bestgolfclubs.com point deeper into the site (all examples.) Just want to make sure that this isn's seen as duplicate content, cause it's not. Just different dot-coms to the same website.

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              • RobertFisher
                RobertFisher last edited by

                Yes and No,

                You said to the same website so are the urls redirecting to pages that are similar to the ones that they are directed to? Multiple must be defined, but let's say it is 30 and they are going to similar pages on the site; there is no problem.

                If you simply got a bunch of sites that had lost their domain and they all have disparate content, then you could be setting yourself up for a problem. Could be is the operative term though. We took over a client who had roughly 100 "micro-sites." They were all for the same service and were not strong sites. For most we redirected only the home pages and let the other pages 404. For a few sites we let them die and for a couple the client refused to let us take them down (even though they had no traffic!).

                I hope that helps a bit.

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