moving content just temporary to other site

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moving content just temporary to other site

redirect, 302 redirect, seo

meee

1:00 pm on Dec 28, 2009 (gmt 0)

I have an uncommon case:

I am getting good traffic from Google to a classified site A. I am going to launch another classified site B which is my priority, later I will close site A. I was thinking to copy all ads from site A to B (exact the same title and very similar or the same content for each ad page) and put inside site A on each page 302 redirect to pages in site B. The purpose of that would be to transfer traffic from page A to B.

My question:
If I realize after 2 months that site B isn't sucesfull as I thought and I want to give priority again back to page A. Would be ok to remove 302 redirect from pages inside site A and put those redirects to pages on site B? Will I get traffic back to site A?

tnx!

canadafred

4:04 pm on Jan 3, 2010 (gmt 0)

The problem is that it takes quite a bit of time for the search engines to accept that webpages have moved elsewhere (2-3 months) and to accredit the new domain with authenticity (another 2 months). To move them back again after you've established authenticity elsewhere would probably take much more time than usual to re-establish trust. It'll happen eventually provided the duplicate content was removed in Site B but it would take some time to the get the machine rolling full-blast again (maybe up to a year I'm guessing).