Will a 301 get the domain name deindexed?

[mj]

To the SEO experts in the house...

I have a parked IDN (let's call it foo.com) which receives strong type-in traffic as well as Google search for "foo.com", and I want to send the traffic to a relevant affiliate site of mine (let's call it bar.com).

If I set a 301 redirect from foo.com to bar.com, will Google remove foo.com from the search index, e.g. will searches for "foo.com" return zero results?

Or is it better to leave a little bit of content on foo.com and set prominent links to bar.com?

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[Bramiozo]

Shouldn't matter what content foo.com has, 301-redirect tells SE's to look at bar.com and treat links to foo.com as if they were links to foo.com...that's what I gathered anyway. Let's hope so

[mj]

Originally Posted by Bramiozo

Shouldn't matter what content foo.com has, 301-redirect tells SE's to look at bar.com and treat links to foo.com as if they were links to foo.com...that's what I gathered anyway. Let's hope so

If foo.com is 301'ed to bar.com, then wouldn't google remove foo.com from the index? That is the real question here... I want searches for "foo.com" to still return the domain, although it's only 301'ed to bar.com. Perhaps this is asking for too much, and I should simply leave a one-pager at foo.com which only links to bar.com in order to prevent foo.com itself from being removed from the serps.

But I do not keep up with Google's policies, so I that's why I am asking for advice from somebody who knows.

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[Bramiozo]

I would say that should logically be against their policy, otherwise you could use google pagerank/indexing earned for site A directly for site B when site A and B should actually be one and the same.

Curious to what the reality is.

[Glow]

With any kind of redirect You'll get a gluing foo.com with bar.com and foo.com will be lost from the Google index

[thegenius1]

What type of software or re direct allows you to visit the page "foo" and then after about 5 seconds it redirects to "bar"

[Glow]

The best way is to make a SE optimized webpage with big ENTER link to affiliate

[Bramiozo]

Originally Posted by thegenius1

What type of software or re direct allows you to visit the page "foo" and then after about 5 seconds it redirects to "bar"

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; ,URL=http://www.bar.com">

should work.

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by Bramiozo

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; ,URL=http://www.bar.com">

should work.

Bram do you know if you use this re direct does it affect your google rankings at all ?

[Bramiozo]

The meta redirect is a risk as I read it, supposedly it's used as a bait tool ... your 5 seconds might help. meta refresh will not benefit the site you are redirecting to in terms of pageranking.

http://www.seobook.com/archives/000297.shtml
http://www.seologic.com/faq/meta-refresh-tag.php

It's probably better to use

<?php
sleep(5); // although I guess you don't need the sleep period now..
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: $url");
exit();
?>