I have all the different permeations of my main site .com .co.uk hypenated and non hyphenated. My question is, what if 12 months down the link, I decide I want to use the .com version as my main domain. At the moment I am using .co.uk How could I transfer the whole site over without any loss in PR and also what about all the links that point to my .co.uk domain? Do I simply just 301 and thats it?
You may park the .com domain to that hosting so that your web site can be accessed from .com and .co.uk Am not familier with 301
I dont think you understood the question. No offence but your advice was really irrelevant to what Im talking about.
Yes - you can transfer the whole site using 301's ! This will also transfer the pr etc. You will need to know every page name on your site though to make it a 100% move. I did this a few months back and while the new site had NO pr too start with i still received traffic because the old site was still ranking ... once google ran a pr update it all transfered to the new site so lalalala.com transfered to lalalalala.co.uk is fine on 301's ... Just test the 301's work !
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