This board is a great find. Great info but I dont see anything posted like the question(s) I have. So here goes....

I am going to use this example below (I do not own these domain names)
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Lets say the keyword phrase - gift wrapping paper - gets 3,300 - 500 - 650 (broad - exact - phrase) organic results monthly and the your company domain is giftwrappingpaper.com.
NOW, you get the domain name giftwrapping.com and that keyword phrase - gift wrapping - gets 33,000 - 2500 - 2650 (broad - exact - phrase) organic results monthly.
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From what I understand, the 301 redirect will carry some page rank juice over to NEW domain. BUT the NEW domain is better and I would want it to start new and gets its BETTER page rank juice.
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1. So, I was thinking of a splash page on old domain stating that we have new domain and leave a link there for them to click over. Basically I dont want to pass any old domain PR juice. Is that best approach?
2. Also, ALL of the pages on the old domain. Should I just point all pages to new website pages of same name OR should I just point all pages of old domain to the old domain homepage that then will be clickable to NEW domain?
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I appreciate any thoughts/insight/direction.
Thanks in advance,
VB