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Thanks Ashley, but the question still remains if I will lose any ranking and authority by 301-ing a page that was a top level page on my old domain to a related interior third level directory on my new site. In other words, does Google assign additional weight for a page being a top level home page, and will that weight be lost when 301 redirected to a deeper level page? It makes sense for Google to do so, as most likely content on the home page is less likely to be spam. Here is an article discussing this: http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2011/05/09/pros-cons-merging-websites/