Upgrading my website with a domain name, will I lost my SEO rank ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by lesportifs, Jul 25, 2012.

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    Hi everyone,

    About 2 years ago, I created a free website with webs.com so my website got a subdomain like http://myname.webs.com

    At first, I did not earn a lot but right now I'm having good traffic and good earnings. (Still have only a subdomain)
    I would like to upgrade and get a real domain name but with webs the problem is that I can't do a redirection from my subdomain to my new domain name.

    I will give you an example: (http://bigpointgames.webs.com/ and http://www.freewebs.com/bigpointgames/)
    Both are the same website, they are connected each other, the only difference is the adress; if you make a change on one, it will appear on the second adress and vice versa.

    So if I get a domain like bigpointgames.com, all of my subdomain will be still up and connected to my real domain name. Does google see this as duplicate content ? Will I lost my SEO Rank ?


    Thank you
     
    lesportifs, Jul 25, 2012 IP
  2. nitin22

    nitin22 Active Member

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    Do 301 redirect
     
    nitin22, Jul 25, 2012 IP
  3. Pepdeal

    Pepdeal Peon

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    I don't think so.Just forward the old domain.
     
    Pepdeal, Jul 25, 2012 IP
  4. zelgly2

    zelgly2 Well-Known Member

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    Yes definitely you will lost seo rank. It is better to redirect that domain
     
    zelgly2, Jul 25, 2012 IP