301 redirect - Is this ok?

[Redfly]

Hi there.
I have a site that ranks well in Google for what I need it to. It has five simple static pages. Lets call this domain.com.

I have a new website that sells this product. I want to only use the new website.

My question is this.
Can I simply 301 redirect all 5 pages from domain.com to www.domain2.com/product without loosing any of my search engine rankings?

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

[Bernard]

About a year ago, I had a site on keyword1-otherword.com that ranked well for a few phrases with keyword1. Then I decided to move that entire website under another domain - domain2.com - which did not have the keyword in the domain name.

All the pages from the original site were moved to the new one with the exact same folder structure and filenames. I also added a bunch of new content without disturbing the original site structure (except for the menu naturally). I added 301 redirects from the old domain to the new one.

Well, the site almost disappeared in google for all the keyword1 phrases that it used to rank top ten. All the SERPs moved from page 1 to page 4 or 5 (but did not disappear entirely). This lasted for 3-6 months (I don't remember exactly how long it was) before one day they magically returned to roughly the same page 1 SERPs that they enjoyed before the changeover.

It seemed to me that the anchor text of links pointing to a page that suddenly returns 301s (which used to be a page returning 200s), gets a "dampening factor" on it's importance in the algo for a while.

[justtupeu]

If you MUSt do it, then you should be prepared to wait a little. In time, you'll get your rank and eveything else back.

[SA007]

Yep, 301 redirect is okay though you will notice a slight difference in serps..
Saad

[solidghost]

Let's say you redirect to another domain with the keyword in it, wont it be better?

[Redfly]

No, I have done many many complete redirects. One domain to another.Just basically moving the site.

What I want here is to move the site to a subdirectory of an already established domain.

The situation is like I have a domain, lets call it , www.hondacivictype-r.com and it is ranking well and making sales. What I want to do is move all the content to www.honda.com/hondacivictype-r/ to have everything under one roof.

(Obviously this is just an example and I don't own either of those domains)

I want all the keywords I am found under for www.hondacivictype-r.com , after the redirect to give the result of www.honda.com/hondacivictype-r/ from now on.

[Alan30]

Think it will take a bit of time but it should work.