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Thanks Yannick - really helpful

cheers and have a good weekend

Bush

Hi Yannick.

Thanks for your reply. The / redirect to /home redirect has been done and the / is excluded.

I'm limited as to what changes I can make. I can amend the robots.txt to crawl / which is 301's to /home and that way the links will be attributed and the 301 remains.

Will that be beneficial do you think?

Bush

Hi Mozzers,

Can you answer something for me please.

I have a client and they have 301 re-directed the homepage '/' to '/home.aspx'.

Therefore all or most of the linkjuice is being passed which is great. They have also marked the '/' as nofollow / noindex in the Robots.txt file so its not being crawled.

My question is if the '/' is being denied access to the robots is it still passing on the authority for the links that go into this page? It is a 301 and not 302 so it would work under normal circumstances but as the page is not being crawled do I need to change the Robots.txt to crawl the '/'?

Thanks

Bush

Wayne - you've been really helpful thanks.

Much appreciated - I'll check the link graph out in more detail now

Bush

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for your response. May I ask what the 60 day delay was down to?

They are of similar themes yes. I really like the idea of contacting the providers of the current links as well.

At this point I'm going off the stats on flippa so need to dig deeper on traffic and domain age etc.

Any negatives? If we do it we'll do it once and once only but will Google hit us with anything?

Bush

Hi Mozzers,

I have a question regarding a tactic I'm considering for a client.  My client has a web hosting company and is ranking well for his keywords and in position 3 for his main term.

There is a site available on flippa that is a keyword rich domain and has a decent link portfolio and domain authority and the price is attractive.

I'm considering buying it to 301 it to his domain but I've never done this tactic before.

Is this grey/black hat? Has anyone done this before and to what extent did it work?

Thanks

Bush

Hi All,

I've recently seen some of my clients experience drops in Yahoo.co.uk.

Does anyone have any info on any algo changes or updates?

Thanks

Bush