Hi Claudia, The short answer is that the 301 is standard for your purposes, though over the last 7 months or so Google has tended to delay passing PageRank (an SEO factor), and tends not to ever pass more then about 85% to 90%%. The long answer is within my just today published article on PageRank sculpting in Visibility Magazine: www.visibilitymagazine.com/internet_marketing_magazine/previous_issues/html/ fall-2012 . The article does not discuss Google and Bing webmaster tools, which you should also use to notify the search engines of the merger of the two sites. If you split the websites up again someday, expect the resurrected website to have worse search engine presence than it does now. Best Regards, Rob Laporte President and CEO DISC, Inc. - "Making Web Sites Make Money" 413-584-6500 Fax 413-553-0745 Rob at 2disc.com www.2disc.com Note: Increasingly, ISPs, companies and individuals use spam blocking systems that block legitimate email too. Important emails should be followed up with a phone call if no reply happens within an expected span of time. From: Claudia Gere <Claudia at ClaudiaGereCo.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:31:05 -0400 To: <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Permanent redirect okay? ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. When I started my first business on the Web, I had a collaborative group of consultants and called my company Claudia Gere & Co. with URL ClaudiaGereCo.com (Co for company). My business over the years has evolved into a solopreneurship. I own the url ClaudiaGere.com and wonder whether making a permanent redirect ("301 Moved Permanently" HTTP) of ClaudiaGere.com to ClaudiaGereCo.com is going to harm my seo, or are there any downsides to a permanent redirect(i.e., can I reverse it if I change my mind in the years to come). I don¹t want to maintain two sites. Thanks for your feedback. Thank you for your help, Claudia Claudia Gere & Co. LLC Helping smart people become outstanding authors Register Now to Write Your Book <http://bit.ly/RockYourBuisnessWithABook> http://bit.ly/RockYourBuisnessWithABook www.ClaudiaGereCo.com <http://www.claudiagereco.com/> +1.413.359.0003 _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20120917/5dc16b06/attachment.html