Changing domain name

[bele]

Hello, we have 10 websites in same niche, and plan to build one strong site by making a 301 redirect from all sites to one. We think to do redirect each site to subfolder like this:

www.newdomain.com/site1

www.newdomain.com/site2

www.newdomain.com/site3

www.newdomain.com/site4

www.newdomain.com/site5

www.newdomain.com/site6

www.newdomain.com/site7

www.newdomain.com/site8

www.newdomain.com/site9

www.newdomain.com/site10

And in root domain place unique content updated daily. Is this would work? Or this is bad idea?

Looking to hear from a qualified technicians advice.

Thanks in advance!

[Audiohype]

Hi Valdas,

It depends if you would like to keep the content and rankings achieved from the individual sites. I would imagine this is important, in which case I think the best approach would be to transfer the sites from their current domains into the subfolders on the new domain. This way each page would still exist but just on the new domain e.g. www.newdomain.com/site1/post-1

This would then leave all the content in place and allow you to capture all the long tail traffic you were getting before.

To do this would be more time consuming as you would need to 301 redirect each individual URL to the new URL but it would help you to make the most of the work you have done on each of the individual sites.