301 redirect

[jasmin28]

I have 2 websites, lets call them Website A and Website B.

Website A is a commercial website, website B is a 7 years old blog.

Website B has many natural, high quality BL, including some from Nytimes, etc.

I want to integrate the blog (B) into the commercial website (A).

The idea behind this thought is to compress the two websites, it is easier to have everything in one place.

I will do this with 301 redirect via Webmaster tools, htaccess etc. The uRL structure will remain the same:

eg:

websiteB/post-title/ -> websiteA/post title

What will happen with my quality BLs? Is there any chance to be penalized by Google?

What will happen with the PR of the 2 sites?

Thanks.

[Klarke]

Sounds like a good plan to me.

If you do a 301 redirect, WebsiteA will benefit from the links of WebsiteB.  WebmasterTools and other tools like OSE, will begin reporting WebsiteB's backlinks when you check WebsiteA's url.   PageRank will also transfer.

Matt Cutts actually post video related to this yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

[rrad]

I believe the best way to proceed here is to change your quality backlinks to the new URLs as well as do 301 redirects.  In the end you are rebuilding your blogs authority at the new domain 301 redirects just help the process.