Transfer Page Rank to New Domain?

Hi,

I have a news web site which is visited by 10 000 to 15 000 every day. It is well established one. The domain has PR 5. I decided to to rebrand it and just changed the domain name with a new one. It has PR 0.

I know that Google didn't update the PR for a few months and to be honest I don't care for the PR ratio too much because I have real visitors I need.

Anyway... My question is would I expect the new domain to get the same PR as the previous one?

Thanks

 

If you did a 301 redirect, which would tell the search engines that your website has permanently moved from the previous domain to the new one, then you won't loose any pagerank.

Even if you don't get many visitors from search engines (though I doubt it at a pagerank of 5), it is advisable to do a 301.

 

dont waste time on pagerank if u have real visitors...pr worth only if your visitors came for search engines...

 

I thought page rank is based on the number quality of links. How come that page rank can be moved to new domain? Since, your backlinks is on the old domain.

Please explain it to me, is it possible to pass pr from old domain to new domain by using 301 redirect?

 

Yes, by doing a 301 redirect you will preserve your search engine rankings and google pr. Here's how it is done in php:

<?php
header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.newdomainname.com" );
?> 

Code (markup):

or using apache's mod_rewrite, something like this, if I'm not mistaken:

redirect 301 / http://www.newdomainname.com/

Code (markup):

Google it to find more about 301 redirects.

 

just get backlinks, backlinks, backlinks

 

How long should it take to see the PR on the new site? I did the exact same thing with my motorcycle news site. It was a PR4 before the mew branding and now the new site is a PR1. It's been months since the switch.

 

301 redirect will do the job...it should transfer the page rank as well.

 

do the 301 redirect as mentioned, it is going to take awhile for it to "resolve", it would be a shame to lose a PR5...

 

301 redirect is the best solution for you.

just search google

 

Dynamike, what is your website and the one you moved from and how did you do the redirect? Can you show us the code? Normally, you should have a pr of 4 to the new one as well, maybe you didn't do the redirect right, or you somehow got penalized.

 

Until the next PR update, at least.

 

<?php
header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.newdomainname.com" );
?>
i thionk this is better then others

 

much faster to use htaccess than to use a redirect in php

 

Will this work for blogspot as well? I ask because, assuming PR stays, mine is a predicted 4 or 5 but I wanted to move it to a domain I already own.

 

Interesting thread ... so what would happen if you did a 301 redirect from a pr5 site to antoher that also has pr5 ... would the overall pr increase?

 

I made the switch around the first of March '07. I kept the old domain active and used this in my .htaccess file

redirect 301 / http://www.brainbucketmag.com/

Code (markup):

The old site was http://www.brainbucketmagazine.com. The new site is http://www.brainbucketmag.com

Mike

 

For a Blogger/BlogSpot blog the process is a bit more complicated, but you can do it via a Blogger custom domain, and get a 301 redirect. It even works, if you want to move from Blogger to WordPress later on.

 

See also here.