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by JohnFen 723 days ago
As others have said, it depends on what you mean by "safe".

I've been asked for things like this with my domains before, and usually I've declined. Not for safety reasons, but for coherency reasons. If the redirect is to a site that is both on-topic for my site and the other site is noncommercial and/or by someone I already have a relationship with, I'm more likely to agree to it.

If it's a purely transactional thing where my only interest in doing it would be for some sort of reward (in money, attention, whatever), then I'm not likely to agree because I think it dilutes the value of my domain.

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Sorry for long reply.

I think I need to give more context here.

So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com

The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those.

He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings.

When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see:

- Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply

Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built)

Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project.

Thanks, Dan