301 Redirect Ring

[grynge]

I have no other reason to trial this than just plain stupidity/boredom. With the seemingly more commonly accepted theories that aging a domain with no content on them is just a plain waste of money. I sat down and have started some tests (see this thread) I was thinking about that test today and also about 301 redirects and how google pass on the pagerank to a domain that has been 301 redirected (albeit only until the next update)

So has anyone ever done a 301 redirect ring and seen the results? I did a search and found no mention of it.

What is a 301 redirect ring, well simply put you take 3 domains and redirect them to each other, domain1 gets 301 redirected to domain2 which gets 301 redirected to domain3 which gets 301 redirected back to domain1 and so on and so forth.

I have some domains sitting around aging so I am going to test it just to see what happens, my guess is they either all take the domain with the highest pagerank or all take the lowest.

Whats your thoughts would google be silly enough to have a perpetual forwarding of the pagerank?

Could you build a pr10 site from enough pr1's?

Will the pagerank on the domains stay the same? Go Up? Go Down or disappear?

[hooperman]

Wouldn't Google detect the "endless loop" and just null all 3 PRs? I'm not sure how this would work because there's no final destination URL.

[Clinton]

Interesting experiment, but all sites will get a PR0.

Look at it from a different angle - from each domain.

Google hits the first domain and sees it is a 301. So irrespective of whether the PR is passed on not this domain should have no PR.

Same thing with any other domain that Google arrives at and finds a 301.

[grynge]

Yeah it's amazing how restless and bored you get before leaving on holiday lol.

Google have stated somewhere that they pass on part of the link juice of a 301 redirect to the new place. If they do that where does it go then?

I actually don't really have a clue to what will happen if anything at all. Just curious to see what will happen if anything at all.
I will pick a pr1 domain a pr2 domain and a pr3 domain just to test out see what happens after a couple of months and then see what happens after the next pr update.

[benitez17]

I don't see why Google wouldn't treat all 3 sites as being down, and nuke their PR if they are down for a long enough period of time.

It could uncover a nice trick though.