Q and A: Can I redirect my personal site to my commercial site?
Dear Kalena...
1. Do search engines mind if I have the site map at a personal site and the rest of the site at a commercial site? I made all links on my site map point to www.learningbooks.net which is my homepage of the commercial site. All other personal site pages are redirect pages to the commercial site. I have not tried to get many links to the new commercial URL because I already had so many to www.gate.net/~labooks which is the old personal site URL.
2. Could you explain the very different number of links by Google and by MSN which the popularity check found for www.gate.net/~labooks ? Google had less than a hundred links to my old site and MSN had over a thousand.
Thanks,
Betsy
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Betsy
1) Google doesn't seem to mind what you have done here, because both sites have a comfortable Toolbar PageRank of 5 out of 10 for your commercial site and 6 out of 10 for your personal site and no visible caching problems. However your current solution is inelegant because you are diluting your link popularity (and PageRank) between two sites.
You really should use 301 Permanently Moved redirects to move traffic away from your personal site and on to www.learningbooks.net. See this post for more information. You should also encourage the sites currently linking to your personal site to change their links to point to your commercial site instead. Once your commercial site has caught up in terms of PageRank and link popularity, it should be safe to switch off your old site.
2) Google never shows the true number of backward links they have on record pointing to your site. Usually they only display links that are from sites of a high PageRank or of what they consider to be of high quality. So if you have thousands of links from low quality sites, you'll likely never see them listed as backward links in Google.
Hope this helps!
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1. Do search engines mind if I have the site map at a personal site and the rest of the site at a commercial site? I made all links on my site map point to www.learningbooks.net which is my homepage of the commercial site. All other personal site pages are redirect pages to the commercial site. I have not tried to get many links to the new commercial URL because I already had so many to www.gate.net/~labooks which is the old personal site URL.
2. Could you explain the very different number of links by Google and by MSN which the popularity check found for www.gate.net/~labooks ? Google had less than a hundred links to my old site and MSN had over a thousand.
Thanks,
Betsy
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Betsy
1) Google doesn't seem to mind what you have done here, because both sites have a comfortable Toolbar PageRank of 5 out of 10 for your commercial site and 6 out of 10 for your personal site and no visible caching problems. However your current solution is inelegant because you are diluting your link popularity (and PageRank) between two sites.
You really should use 301 Permanently Moved redirects to move traffic away from your personal site and on to www.learningbooks.net. See this post for more information. You should also encourage the sites currently linking to your personal site to change their links to point to your commercial site instead. Once your commercial site has caught up in terms of PageRank and link popularity, it should be safe to switch off your old site.
2) Google never shows the true number of backward links they have on record pointing to your site. Usually they only display links that are from sites of a high PageRank or of what they consider to be of high quality. So if you have thousands of links from low quality sites, you'll likely never see them listed as backward links in Google.
Hope this helps!
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