Domains merging

[Maxxum]

Hi everyone,

The company I work for has two domains, one for the english version of the website and another one for the french version.

Example: www.digitalmusic.com (in english)

www.musiquedigitale.com (in french)

(these are examples***)

I would like to know if on SEO standpoint it would be better to only have one domain so all of the links link to the same domain. Would it increase the domain authority and our rankings ?

We will then have:

www.digitalmusic.com/fr/page1 for pages in french

www.digitalmusic.com/en/page1 for pages in english

with all the 301 redirects required...

Thank you in advance for your answers.

[iAnalyst.com]

The only benefit in having these on one domain is sharing the link popularity from the one domain verses having to focus on link building and branding for both. I suspect the french version needs much less link popularity then the .com. If both sites already have good link building and ranking i would see no reason to merge them.