301 Redirect from Authoritative but Loosely-Related Domain
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We acquired a health-related blog about a year ago with good domain authority and a pretty strong link profile (TF ~40). We have been publishing good relevant content in it but it's not really paying dividends and we are considering doing a 301 to our money site, which is focused primarily on senior issues but has a lot of health-related content.
The question is - with the two domains only being loosely related in subject matter, do we stand to harm our main site by redirecting from the other domain?
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