New domain

[mgfarte]

Hi, I have a domain with no keywords on it, and I´ve been using it for years.

Now I bought another domain with the keyword on it.

I whant to work on seo for the second domain, with the keyword. What is the better way to work this out? 301? Duplicate de site? redirect in another way?

[mjtaylor]

Considering that keywords in domains no longer have the same SEO value they once enjoyed in Google, switching to a new domain might not be in your best interests. While a 301 will pass along much of the incoming link juice, it doesn't necessarily convey all of it.

Nor do you want to duplicate your site, but perhaps you could develop a second site as a blog or with other, unique content and use that to drive traffic to your main site ....

[sesertin]

I have a domain with no keywords on it

What does that exactly meen? you don't have the keywords in the domain itself or the content of the page does not reflect your desired KWs?

bought another domain with the keyword on it

I suppose that KW is included in the domain than. How many KWs do you have? 100? 50? or just one? If you have multiple keywords (which I suppose) and your original domain has many inlinks than you can take into consideration working with your original domain. If you have multiple keywords and one is good with the exact match domain but you lost 10% of inkoming link juice with the redirection, than I am not sure that it woths. That domian won't be necessarily good for the rest of the keywords.

Take these into consideration before redirecting. For the redirection part canonicals and 301 redirect are both good, in both cases you loose 10% linkjuice, however canonical is often suggested by more webmasters.

[mgfarte]

Yes, the keyword is on the domain. I haven´t thought about canonical. How can I do that? Duplicate the site and add the canonical to the first one? Can I use canonical to one site to another with different domains?

[sesertin]

Here's a great video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM

[mgfarte]

Yes, the keyword is on the domain. I haven´t thought about canonical. How can I do that? Duplicate the site and add the canonical to the first one? Can I use canonical to one site to another with different domains?