Merging 5 Sites

[ben10001]

Hi there

We have 5 separate sites which handle different regions/niches that we work in, and we are planning to merge into one so we have a logical path for 301 redirects. The sites have DA's as follows:

Site 1 - DA 36
Site 2 - DA 31
Site 3 - DA 29
Site 4 - DA 27
Site 5 - DA 20

Does anyone have any experience with how the DA would flow through to the new site?

Each site currently relates to a different niche that we work with, and we are planning to keep the content structured similarly, probably like this: https://newtoplevelsite/site1/products,  https://newtoplevelsite/site2/products and so on. That makes 301 redirects easy and also gives us more control in managing users and different teams in Wordpress. We would link the different niches through the top menu and links within the pages. Is there a better solution? Would it make more sense to have  https://newtoplevelsite/products/site1,  https://newtoplevelsite/products/site2, and so on?

Thanks for the ideas

[EGOL]

If you merge these five sites the results will probably be kickass.   Simply kickass.   I believe that the strength of all of your pages will benefit in terms of Google performance.   You might also find some cross-selling and cross-content promotion that is extremely valuable.

I like this method because it will probably be easiest to do...  https://newtoplevelsite/site1/products

But, I like that method if and only if these sites do not have a lot of duplication.  If there is a lot of duplication, I would do the long and tedious work of totally restructuring on the basis of topic.

About this question...  "Does anyone have any experience with how the DA would flow through to the new site?"

I would not give it a single moment of thought.

[ben10001]

We dont really have duplication at all

Thanks a lot!