Redirecting Existing Domains to My Main Site

[freecall]

Hi

I have a main property related website featuring different countries around the world. I also have many different seperate country websites 20+. All keyword rich domains with a good 9 years+ domain age and PR3's with decent links and moz rankings and unique content. Many of the sites are very low Alexa rank now and receive little traffic.

I don't have the time now to spend on each of the individual domains and am wanting to consolidate them and their PR juice to the corresponding country page of my main website.

My question is - is it possible - will google see this as me trying to manipulate them and is my main site likely to suffer from any penalties or downgrading?

Thanks for your input.

[Marcus_Miller]

Gosh, there is a lot going on here so it's kind of tricky to give an answer to this without seeing the domains and doing some analysis but I can give you some general advice.

First, check this post out, it's old but relevant:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains

After that, the big one here is are you trying to do something that is manipulative? If not, as long as you redirect the sites to the relevant content rather than just folding them in, you should be okay.

Done right, if the sites themselves are clean, then nothing bad should happen but again I am just shooting from the hip here with no links.

To play devils advocate - if they have no traffic, is there much benefit to the redirection? Do they have valuable links? Content etc? Will you move the content and then do individual redirects or are they just old doorway pages that have really stopped working now?

Worst case, you could always kill the redirects if it causes you a problem and you would bounce back but really, this all depends on the status of the sites themselves and whether any other funny business has been done to the main site or these other sites.

So.... impossible to give a 100% answer here without more details but I hope this helps.

Marcus