What happens to site positionif I take over site?

[wevet]

If I acquire a domain name attached to a site with good positioning.


If I forward visitors onto another site will the positioning be affected and if so how quickly?

The keywords will be pretty much the same.

[realmaverick]

If you use a 301 redirect to redirect traffic from that URL to your own website, it's likely to be dropped pretty quickly.

Are you getting the content of the site or just the domain name?

[fisicx]

Agree with RM. The rank of the site depends mainly on the content and it's relevancy to the search criteria. If you forward the visitor to your main site then the SE will look at the target page and decide if the 'new' content deserves the same ranking. If not then you could be out of the index in a matter of days.

[wevet]

I would be acquiring the site and content.
The content in terms of keywords will be pretty much the same though the way of doing business will be changed.

[enigma1]

You could either use some server scripts or web app script and some approximation for the redirects. If the old page links are the same with the new ones, should be very simple and do, via the server (like .htaccess), if not then you may need to setup some code in the web app to do it. The end result will be something like:

site1.example.com/page-a.asp => 301 Redirect => site2.example.com/page-a.html

Also try to keep the old domain for some time to utilize the traffic from the old links. Domain changes in general will impact the pages but if you have specific redirects it may help.