I have a very old websites from 1998 at www.webnweb.com . I also have a video game info site at http://webnweb.com/vgame that I forgot about for a few years, but is a pr 5 so I thought maybe I should update it and get some traffic. Currently, webnweb.com is pretty useless in its information. Would I be allowed to change its topic to video games from its very old general info and hosting info? I could still keep all the old pages up there and linked (only about 5-15 pgs), but I'd want to change webnweb.com to a video game site homepage so to interlink it with the /vgame directory for better SERP's. My father is definitely the first person to register it in 1997 or 98 and it has been with us ever since. What should I do?
Just from my own experience, I had an old site from 2-3 years ago (electronics & gifts site) that I never renewed the webhosting on because it wasn't pulling in any profits for me. I still had the domain name registered, so I revamped the site in September 2005 into a perfume retail site. Some of my checks on Google are still showing backlinks to the old site. I happen to think this is weird, since the site wasn't hosted for at least a year! Maybe it is because of the domain name was always currently registered by me, I don't know. I have always wondered if switching the theme of the domain has ever hurt my rankings. I suppose I would do a backlink search on the webnweb.com name and see what pops up. If most of the links are more webhosting related, it may cause you a problem. But then again, I think the age of the site may be to your advantage!
*For checking site links, i used msn and yahoo search* webnweb barely has any links, and I don't think any hosting ones. www.webnweb.com and webnweb.com have links from video game sites or dragon art site (don't know why). Now this next bit may get a bit weird, bear with me. I also had webnweb.com/vgames for a few years up, no link to webnweb.com, it was like its own website. It had a pr 6 and most high ranked pages were pr 4 or 5 as well. I recently 301'ed the site to my vgescape.com so those links were all video games. Any links left over are mainly video games as well. I still have webnweb.com/vgame, also no link to webnweb.com from this subdirectory either. The few links to this are also video games. I currently have 3 video game sites with page ranks. I could basically have them all link to webnweb.com now as well as pay for a few other video ones, and then change webnweb.com to a video game site after like a month, while working on improving webnweb.com/vgame. Technically, all I want to do is change webnweb.com to a video game topic page and just have all links go to the webnweb.com/vgame subdirectory as its already established. So, technically, all I'm really going to change is webnweb.com.
heh, sorry for double post but something I just noticed: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cach...web&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a The source code for the homepage was horrible because the content must be in frames or something so google never saw it: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 FINAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Studio NetObjects"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="NetObjects Fusion 4.0.1 for Windows"> <TITLE>WELCOME TO WEBNWEB</TITLE> <FRAMESET BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0 FRAMEBORDER=0 ROWS="80,*"> <FRAME NAME="header" SRC="./header_index.html" SCROLLING=NO MARGINWIDTH="2" MARGINHEIGHT="1" FRAMEBORDER=NO BORDER="0" NORESIZE> <FRAME NAME="body" SRC="./body_index.html" SCROLLING=AUTO MARGINWIDTH=2 MARGINHEIGHT=2> </FRAMESET> </HEAD> </HTML> So this means since half the links going to webnweb.com and most links going to subdirectories relate to video games, I guess it is safe to switch the site over to solely gaming info.