Comments on: Case Study: Aftermath Of Moving A Domain Using 301 Redirects

By: Baby

Baby — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:26:58 +0000

70% within a month? I’m not quite sure that is acceptable. Taking a 30% hit like that. How long until 100% is the question, I guess.

By: Shankar

Shankar — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:18:20 +0000

Same thing happend to me when I registered .mobi site for me. One guy claimed $5000 for passing the site to me. it was in my company name. I missed it by 2 days.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:25:51 +0000

With page rank like you have, I would not make a complete move. If the domain ever pop up as available because the owner lets his fees go, then I would grab it and just do a companion site that is non-blog related.

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:29:21 +0000

I don’t think google factor in the domain name when ranking so given that 70%+ of my traffic comes from Google, I don’t think i’ll benefit.

To be honest, I have a sneaky feeling that being a .co.uk helps people remember my url more!

By: 3gp

3gp — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:24:37 +0000

If .com site is getting more attention and are popular than yours than it will hurt you. Otherwise i dont think it is worthy unless it is type-in domain name.

By: listikal

listikal — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:40:40 +0000

I switched from a domain early on in my blogging career and it went fairly smooth, but moving something more massive like your Everton I would assume is a much more tedious task.

Plus if you move to a sole .com address, you have to worry about PageRank.

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:43:10 +0000

Thanks for the mention. That 70% number also includes MSN sending 0 traffic and a seasonal traffic slowdown, so the actual real percentage is much closer to 90% for Google and Yahoo in this case.