Thread: Keep the backlinks and the popularity of the purchased Domain

Hi Friends & Webmasters,

i have a problem and hope that you can help me.

I've got a domain www.page1.com about the topic "presents".

There is on competitor with a similar domain name. Its possible to buy this domain since yesterday.
It is the domain Page2.com

Now i've bought the domain Page2.com and will host it on the same IP like www.page1.com

So the Page2.com is on the same IP and the same server like www.page1.com

Now I want to forward the domain Page2.com through 301 to www.page1.com

Does this work in terms of SEO? I want to keep the backlinks and the popularity of the purchased
Page2.com for the old domain www.page1.com

Will this method work out for Google? What do i have to keep in mind and take care of?

Thanks in advance.

Karolinat

Doing it the way you described won't hurt you, but I don't see it having the potential of helping much either. Some of the backlinks to page2.com will probably die out over time. At least you 'bought' the competition. Something to keep in mind is that page2.com's backlinks might be focusing on different keywords/keyphrases than your page1.com site.

You can do it if you really want.This usually can be done in the control panel of your hosting.For the last question,maybe you should spend more time on the promotion and
link building of that domain to keep abreast with the old one.After all,it's new.