I'm going to be moving my lingerie store to a new domain and I'm scared! From what I've read it looks like a 301 redirect is the answer, but I'm wondering if I'm going to lose my rankings, and if so, for how long? The site I'm moving has 9,000+ pages, 500+ links and gets quite a bit of traffic. Should I start building links to the new domain now, or should I wait until the site has been moved over ?
I read different SEO blog, some say 301 transfer PR and some say they don't Anyway, like most of us agree, no one know how google work beside google here are who said it work http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/googlepagerank301.html http://www.seotoday.com/browse.php/category/articles/id/477/index.php here are who said it doesn't http://xona.com/2005/07/21.html
just remmeber whether u 301 or not, the new domain will still have to go through the google sandbox/new domain filter.
Has anyone here moved a site to a new domain? Are you sure? I already have some content up on the new domain (http://www.lalalingerie.com) in order to get it recognized...
I just moved one to a new domain from a free host with no control panel, no .htaccess. Page rank has held up but indexing took major hit. Suggest you humble yourself before the Master of the Universe, using words like brother dear, oh brother dear without whom I would never survive ... Seriously Shawn gave some good advice on moving site recently as I remember. It is good you already have the site up and minimum page rank. At least Google knows you exist. From what I have read think 301's do pass pagerank.
How are you doing on this, ViciousSummer? P.S. I actually laughed when I saw the results of your poll ( from your Lingerie Blog post )... some luck that the results would be highest for the first site and trail off so perfectly. Anyways I voted Coquette, definitely Coquette p;
What about downgrading your hosting plan with the old domain to a redirect-only... this way the pages would keep the same URL, yea? Is this possible or even a good idea?
Actually, that is the way that the poll is sorted ... Has anyone else moved a site to a new domain? Essentually, my busy season is coming up in 5 months and I want to know if my rankings will recover by that time?
It was confirmed that the site SERP will be adversely affected depending on the location of your new host.
WOW! Shawn helped me with the tricky redirect and it worked PERFECTLY. As soon as the old domain dropped the rankings, the new domain picked the same rankings up. This is way better then I was expecting!