Redirecting dofollow, high-domain-authority links from one site to another: good idea?

[John8899]

I have two sites that offer help for freelance writers.

The first gets almost no search traffic and is very low priority for me. The second is my main priority and gets substantial search traffic.

The low-priority site has a significant number of dofollow backlinks from high-domain-authority sites. Is it a good idea to 301 redirect these links to similar/related posts on my high-priority site? Would this potentially boost the SEO of my high-priority site?

Thanks for any help!

[mkupfer]

Yes, it would potentially boost the pages on your high-priority site, but there a lot of variables in terms of whether it has an equal effect on the new URL as it does on the current one.

Perhaps more importantly, you run a much higher risk of losing these links altogether if the sites providing them discover that users are being taken to a different site than that in the link.