301 Redirect Question

[chris1]

My company has two domains...
www.companyname.com and www.companyproduct.com

In the past, our company basically sold one product and used that product name as our only domain. Over time, that product has declined in popularity, but our company has grown through other offerings. The domain with our company name is now where we do nearly all of our business while the product name domain has not been updated in a long time and drives very few sales. However, the older product name domain has some decent links coming into it (its a PR6 compared to PR5 for our newer main domain).

My question is this... if we place a 301 redirect from the product name domain to our main domain, will that pass "link juice" from all the links coming into www.companyproduct.com? Will this help our rankings or is there a better way to go about this?

Thanks!

- Chris

[AussieWebmaster]

it will help... I would look at redirecting the internal pages to deep pages on the company site.... don't pass all to homepage

[chris1]

Thanks Frank!

I hear you about re-directing the internal links to deeper pages within the site on the newer domain. We will definitely try to do that. Is there a command that I can use in Yahoo Site Explorer (or some other tool) that will allow us to easily see which of our pages are getting the most links? I know that the majority of the links are coming into the homepage. However, the rest of the incoming links seems to be spread out over many pages. I suppose I could search for them all individually, but I figure there is probably an easier way.

- Chris

[CarrieHill]

Thanks Frank!

I hear you about re-directing the internal links to deeper pages within the site on the newer domain. We will definitely try to do that. Is there a command that I can use in Yahoo Site Explorer (or some other tool) that will allow us to easily see which of our pages are getting the most links? I know that the majority of the links are coming into the homepage. However, the rest of the incoming links seems to be spread out over many pages. I suppose I could search for them all individually, but I figure there is probably an easier way.

- Chris

You can use the "links" tab under Google's Webmaster Central Tools to see what indexed pages on your site are receiving external links.

I'm not sure Yahoo will tell you anything useful unless you have an authenticated site.

[chris1]

Thanks Carrie!